Limestone squat jar
Limestone squat jar (Lst.Sq. 3), handles modeled on shoulder, ring modeled at top; white spotted with grey; broken and mended, small pieces missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.626
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.626; 11.626
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Limestone squat jar
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .098 H. .191 W.
- 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. 187, fig. 58, no. 4.
- 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)
- Remarks
- Two limestone squat jars identified as 3: MFA 11.626 (originally identified as H.S.Sq. 3) and MFA 11.382a-b.