Digital Giza | Accessory from limestone servant statue: beer strainer

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5564, G 5563

Limestone [model "beer strainer"] belonging to servant statue (cf. 35-11-25); painted red, yellow, and black, hole on top and hole in center of bottom. Illustration: No

ID

MMA_64.66.5
Department

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

Pit G 2347a E (= G 5564 C)
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Height: 9.4 cm Diameter: max: 6 cm; min: 3 cm
Credit Line

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1964
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_35-11-26
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number

MFAB_37.654
Object Ownership Information

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_64.66.5; deaccessioned MFAB_37.654
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
Date of Register Entry

11/12/1935
Object owned by

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Notes

Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1935. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_37.654). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 8, 1964.
Remarks

pits G 2347a CDE = pits G 5564 ABC
Problems/Questions

MFA and MMA accession numbers verified