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Pottery offering stand with bowl shaped top with pinched wavy rim (lip spouts), [(Mycerinus) Type XXI]; now in twenty-one pieces, incomplete, lower part missing.

Details

ID
MFAB_47.2140
Alternate IDs
47.2140; MFAB_47.2140
Department
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom
Title
Pottery offering stand
Medium
Pottery
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 317-350)
Bibliography
Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 220, p. 221, fig. 70 no. 1, 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.

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