Pottery jar
Pottery squat shoulder jar with short neck, direct everted rim, and flat base; wheel made, lower exterior scraped and hand finished, red slip on exterior of body and interior of neck, traces of burnishing; complete except for small chip in rim.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2114
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.2114; 47.2114
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 6.2 cm; Base diameter: approx. 6.4 cm; Maximum diameter: approx. 12 cm; Height: 9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 325)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pl. 72b.
- 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).