Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G III-a temple
Slate model cup (Dim. 26); drilled with borer; fine-grained.
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- ID
- MFAB_11.707
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Subsidiary pyramid G III-a temple (MQT)
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- Material
- Slate
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- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .02 H. .021 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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- 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. 184, fig. 52.
ID: HUMFA_C2886_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G III-a temple
Description: Stone vessels from subsidiary pyramid G III-a temple (= Menkaure queen's temple), room 9: alabaster and slate model cups and bowls, most inscribed for Kai: top row: Dim. 22 (= MFA 11.715), Dim. 26 (= MFA 11.707), Dim. 23 (= MFA 11.695); bottom row: Dim. 24 (= MFA 11.691), Dim. 21 (= MFA 11.714), Dim. 25 (= MFA 11.692)
ID: HUMFA_C2887_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G III-a temple
Description: Stone vessels from subsidiary pyramid G III-a temple (= Menkaure queen's temple), room 9: alabaster and slate model cups and bowls, most inscribed for Kai: top row: Dim. 25 (= MFA 11.692), Dim. 26 (= MFA 11.707), Dim. 24 (= MFA 11.691); bottom row: Dim. 21 (= MFA 11.714), Dim. 23 (= MFA 11.695), Dim. 22 (= MFA 11.715)