Gneiss spouted bowl with recurved rim
Thin walled gneiss bowl with recurved rim (H.S.B.R. 9), spout on one side; white marked with black; broken and mended, pieces missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.627
- Alternate IDs
- 11.627; MFAB_11.627
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Gneiss spouted bowl with recurved rim
- Medium
- Anorthosite gneiss
- Dimensions
- Height x width: 4.9 x 17.4 cm (1 15/16 x 6 7/8 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. 186, fig. 56, no. 7.
- 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)