Pottery jar
Pottery squat shoulder jar (ewer) with short neck, rolled and modeled rim (pinched rim spout), and flat base; wheel made, lower exterior scraped and hand finished, red slip on exterior of body and interior of neck; complete.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2106
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_47.2106; 47.2106
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 8.6 cm; Base diameter: 6.2 cm; Maximum diameter: 17.2 cm; Height: 15.7 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT)
- 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).