Pottery jar
Pottery squat shoulder jar with short neck and flat base, [(Mycerinus) Type XIX]; wheel made, lower exterior scraped and hand finished, red slip and burnish on exterior of body and interior of neck; complete from base to shoulder, missing most of neck and all of rim.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2115
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.2115; 47.2115
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Base diameter: approx. 8.8 cm; Maximum diameter: approx. 16 cm; Height from base to bottom of neck: 11 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 54-144)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 219, fig. 69 no. 2, p. 266.
- 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).