Fragments of limestone bowl
Limestone bowl (Lst.B. 52); fine grained, grey and white; broken and mended, pieces missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.1193a-b
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.1193a-b; 11.1193a-b
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Fragments of limestone bowl
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height x width: 5.7 x 14.1 cm (2 1/4 x 5 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 364 sub-301, III 23 NW)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 187, fig. 58, no. 49.
- 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)