Digital Giza | Pottery spouted jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Pottery bi-conical spouted jar with flat base, [(Mycerinus) Type XI]; cream burnish.

ID: MFAB_47.1906
Alternate IDs: 47.1906; MFAB_47.1906
Department: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification: Vessels
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
Title: Pottery spouted jar
Medium: Pottery
Dimensions: Overall: 13 x 15 cm (5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 317-349)
Bibliography: Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 215, fig. 65 no. 17, p. 216, p. 269.
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).

Pottery spouted jar