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Alabaster model ovoid jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Alabaster model ovoid jar (Dim. 11), rim modeled at top, flat bottom; partly drilled with borer; large grained; rim nicked.

Details

  • ID
    MFAB_11.710
  • Department
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 313 sub)
  • Material
    Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
  • Dimensions
    Height x diameter: 6.1 x 5.0 cm (2 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
  • 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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Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 184, fig. 52, no. 5.