Bronze tool: axe head
Bronze axe head; light green incrustation, spot of bronze disease, also incrustation of dirt.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.784
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.784; 11.784
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Bronze tool: axe head
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Width x length: 16.4 x 14.3 cm (6 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 338 sub)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 231 (no. 10) pl. 65i (misidentified as no. 9).
- 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)