Pottery jar
Pottery jar with rolled rim and tapering rounded base, [(Mycerinus) Type V]; wheel made, bottom exterior scraped and hand finished, red slip; missing small portion of rim, but otherwise complete.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1931
- Alternate IDs
- 47.1931; MFAB_47.1931
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 7.2 cm; Maximum diameter: approx. 12 cm; Height: 16.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / III 382-i)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 213, p. 215, fig. 65 no. 2, p. 271.
- 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).