Pottery jar
Small pottery ovoid jar with rolled everted rim and tapering rounded base, [(Mycerinus) Type V]; vertical potmark shaped like two triangles on either end of central diamond ><>< on shoulder; complete except for small chip in rim, one crack in body.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2112
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.2112; 47.2112
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15 x 12 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 321 sub-iv)
- 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.
- 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).