Alabaster shoulder jar
Alabaster shoulder jar (A.Sh.J. 44), tall and slender with flat base and high shoulder, rim modeled at top; fine grained, horizontal bands of white; broken and mended, piece missing from rim, four small associated fragments.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.455
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.455; 11.455
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Predynastic Period ?
- Title
- Alabaster shoulder jar
- Medium
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24.7 x 10.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 379)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 183, fig. 50, 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)