Alabaster model ovoid jar
Alabaster model ovoid jar (Dim. 11), rim modeled at top, flat bottom; partly drilled with borer; large grained; rim nicked.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.710
- Alternate IDs
- 11.710; MFAB_11.710
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Alabaster model ovoid jar
- Medium
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
- Dimensions
- Height x diameter: 6.1 x 5.0 cm (2 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 313 sub)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 184, fig. 52, 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)