Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Ivory amulet, Taweret.
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- ID
- MFAB_11.848
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / between granary under room I 50 [Dynasty 4 level] and walls of I 50)
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- Material
- Ivory
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- Dimensions
- Overall: 1.7 cm (11/16 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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- 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. 235.
ID: HUMFA_A418_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Amulets and beads from Menkaure valley temple (1910): top row: five amulets: MFA 11.849 (scorpion ?), MFA 11.848 (Taweret), MFA 11.851 (fish), MFA 11.850 (turtle), MFA 11.864 (hippopotamus head ?), six barrel beads: __-__-__, __-__-__, __-__-__, MFA 11.867, __-__-__, __-__-__, six cylinder beads: MFA 11.858, MFA 11.856, MFA 11.859, MFA 11.857, MFA 11.861, MFA 11.860 second row: stand of beads: MFA 11.869; third row, left: cluster of five amulets: MFA 11.855 (foot), MFA 11.868 (upper left), MFA 11.883 (lower left), __-__-__ (upper right), MFA 11.878 (lower right); third row, center: MFA 11.846 (alabaster heart amulet); third row, right: cluster of six amulets: MFA 11.885 (upper left), MFA 11.854 (lower left), MFA 11.886 (upper center), MFA 11.876 (lower center), MFA 11.877 (upper right), MFA 11.866 (lower right); fourth row: stand of beads: MFA 11.873; bottom row, left: MFA 11.852 (barrel bead), MFA 11.847 (ear or nose ring); bottom row, right: cluster of six scarab beads: MFA 11.863, MFA 11.865, MFA 11.870, MFA 11.871, MFA 11.874, MFA 11.875