Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Alabaster cylinder jar (S.Cyl. 35); drilled with borer; coarse grained, horizontal narrow bands of white; broken and mended, pieces missing.
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- ID
- MFAB_11.545
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT)
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- Material
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .136 H. .106 W.
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- 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; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)
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- Remarks
- Object mislabeled Cyl. 55
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- Problems/Questions
- accession card reads S.Cyl. 55; object mislabeled 55; but this jar does not match jar identified as Cyl. 55 in C2649 (see MFA 11.536); this is Cyl. 35
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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