Bronze coin
Bronze coin; (obverse) male head barely visible, (reverse) male head barely visible; surface of both sides almost completely worn. [07-2-95]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.980
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.980; 11.980
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Coins
- Period
- Greco-Roman Period
- Title
- Bronze coin
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room J1 = pillared hall 27, in right hand of mummy 23)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 259.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1907: 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
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.