Alabaster ring stand
Alabaster ring stand (F. 5); drilled with borer at both ends; fine grained, wavy lined; both rims broken and pieces missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.1231
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.1231; 11.1231
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Alabaster ring stand
- Medium
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .057 H. .045 D.
- 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. 183, fig. 50, no. 17.
- 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)