Pottery jar
Pottery ovoid jar with short tubular neck and rolled rim, [(Mycerinus) Type XVI]; body handmade (coiled), neck and rim wheel made, red slip on exterior, six horizontal incised lines above shoulder; complete.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1917
- Alternate IDs
- 47.1917; MFAB_47.1917
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 8.7 cm; Maximum diameter: approx. 20 cm; Height: 23.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 302 sub-15/35)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 217, fig. 67 no. 3, p. 267.
- 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).