Pottery jar
Slender pottery shoulder jar with modeled rolled rim and slightly funnel-shaped neck, [(Mycerinus) Type VIII]; body handmade (coiled), neck and rim wheel made; broken at base, but otherwise complete.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1903
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.1903; 47.1903
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Marl Clay)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 8.5 cm; Maximum diameter: approx. 11.6 cm; Height as preserved: 23 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / III 19-1)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 214, p. 215, fig. 65 no. 13, p. 264 (misdentified as Type IX).
- 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; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
- Remarks
- Object not registered (no registration records for 1910).