Digital Giza | Pottery model jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Pottery model jar with pointed base, [(Mycerinus) Type XVI]; red burnish; complete, chip in rim.

ID: MFAB_47.1936
Alternate IDs: 47.1936; MFAB_47.1936
Department: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification: Vessels
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
Title: Pottery model jar
Medium: Pottery
Dimensions: Overall: 9.5 x 5.5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 391 sub-iii)
Bibliography: Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 217, fig. 67 no. 5, 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).

Pottery model jar