Pottery jar
Small pottery ovoid jar with direct rim and tapering rounded base, [(Mycerinus) Type V]; wheel made, lower exterior scraped and hand finished, exterior unslipped, vertical potmark shaped like two triangles on either end of central diamond ><>< on shoulder (incised after firing); complete.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2111
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.2111; 47.2111
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Marl Clay)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 5 cm; Maximum diameter: 12.4 cm; Height: 17.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 326-i)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 213, fig. 65 no. 3, p. 269, pl. 72a.
- 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).