Bronze tool: adze blade
Bronze adze blade; light green incrustation, spots of bronze disease, also incrustation of dirt.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.785
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.785; 11.785
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Bronze tool: adze blade
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Length x width: 13.5 x 16.5 cm (5 5/16 x 6 1/2 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. 11) pl. 65i (misidentified as no. 10).
- 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)