Fragment of basalt shoulder jar
Basalt shoulder jar (B. 16), handles modeled on shoulder; fine grained, brownish grey; broken and mended, part of one side only.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.1191
- Alternate IDs
- 11.1191; MFAB_11.1191
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Fragment of basalt shoulder jar
- Medium
- Basalt
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .134 H. .115 W.
- 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. 187, fig. 59, no. 16.
- 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.