Pottery basin with recurved rim and tubular spout
Pottery flat bottomed basin with recurved rim and tubular spout, [(Mycerinus) Type XXXVI]; red burnish, X potmark; complete, but in four fragments.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1918
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.1918; 47.1918
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Pottery basin with recurved rim and tubular spout
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13 x 22 cm (5 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 302 sub-17/37)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 226, p. 227, fig. 77 no. 1.
- 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).