Pottery jar
Pottery ovoid jar with modeled rim and rounded base, [(Mycerinus) Type VI]; wheel made, lower exterior roughly scraped and hand finished, red slip; missing one-third of rim (sherds stored inside vessel), but otherwise complete.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1930
- Alternate IDs
- 47.1930; MFAB_47.1930
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 6 cm; Maximum diameter: 11.6 cm; Height: 15.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 21-13)
- 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. 8.
- 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).