Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Bronze adze blade; heavily incrusted, light green.
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- ID
- MFAB_11.842
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Knives, Blades, Scrapers
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT)
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- Material
- Bronze
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- Dimensions
- Length x width: 9.4 x 3.9 cm (3 11/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
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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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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 231 (no. 13).
ID: HUMFA_A408_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Copper tools from Menkaure valley temple (1908): left, top row: MFA 11.841 (chisel); left, second row: __-__-__, __-__-__; left, third row: MFA 11.845 (knife blade, fragment), __-__-__, __-__-__; left, bottom row: MFA 11.843 (harpoon point), __-__-__, MFA 11.842 (adze blade); right, left: MFA 11.785 (adze blade); right, right: MFA 11.784 (axe head)
ID: HUMFA_A407_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Copper tools from Menkaure valley temple (1908): left, top row: MFA 11.841 (chisel); left, second row: __-__-__, __-__-__; left, third row: MFA 11.845 (knife blade, fragment), __-__-__, __-__-__; left, bottom row: MFA 11.843 (harpoon point), __-__-__, MFA 11.842 (adze blade); right, top: MFA 11.784 (axe head), right, bottom: MFA 11.785 (adze blade)