Digital Giza | Diorite bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Diorite bowl (H.S.B. 4), rim modeled at top; fine grained, white and grey marked with black; broken and mended, pieces missing from bottom.

ID: MFAB_11.462
Alternate IDs: MFAB_11.462; 11.462
Department: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification: Vessels
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Title: Diorite bowl
Medium: Diorite
Dimensions: Other: 7.6 x 13.3 cm (3 x 5 1/4 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. 20.
Notes: This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1908-1910: 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: Three bowls identified as H.S.B. 4: MFA 11.462, MFA 11.628, MFA 11.1135.

Diorite bowl