Pottery jar
Small pottery ovoid jar with direct rim and rounded base; wheel made, lower exterior scraped and hand finished, red slip on exterior; complete except chip in rim.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2102
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.2102; 47.2102
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 4.9 cm; Maximum diameter: 12.6 cm; Height: 15.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 366 (?))
- 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).