Inscribed fragment of alabaster
Two inscribed fitting fragments of alabaster; hieroglyphs incised on raised panels, part of name of sem-priest Rawer; irregular break.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.716
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.716; 11.716
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Stelae
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Inscribed fragment of alabaster
- Medium
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .078 L. .125 W. .05 W.
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 323)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 38 (1910, February 18-23), p. 281 (no. 5).
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)