Limestone model squat jar
Limestone model squat jar (Dim. 16), no ring at top; white and grey; surface rough and incrusted.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.708
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.708; 11.708
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Limestone model squat jar
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .04 H. .071 W.
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / III 12)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 184, fig. 52, no. 41.
- 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)