Pottery jar
Pottery offering jar with pointed base, [(Mycerinus) Type IV]; body handmade (coiled), neck and rim wheel made, unslipped; almost complete, base broken off at point, some limestone voiding on surface.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1915
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.1915; 47.1915
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (coarse Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 9.8 cm; Maximum diameter: 13.7 cm; Height: approx. 35 cm (w/o bottom of base)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 364-i)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 212, fig. 64 no. 1, p. 270.
- 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).