Breccia squat jar
Breccia squat jar (H.S.Sq. 69), handles modeled on shoulder, ring modeled at top; red and brownish-white; broken and mended, pieces missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.434
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.434; 11.434
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Breccia squat jar
- Medium
- Limestone breccia
- Dimensions
- Height x diameter: 8.2 x 19.8 cm (3 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 188, fig. 60, no. 3.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1908-1910: 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)