Rock crystal left eye inlay from large statue; front highly polished; traces of copper around rim and of red color at back. (Copper frame = Eg.Inv.4712)
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- ID
- MFAB_47.1670
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / III 3)
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- Material
- Rock crystal
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- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: L. .04 m. W. .03 m. TH. .015 m.
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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. July 1908: Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Egypt. Brought from Harvard Camp in 1947.
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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. 114, no. 50a.
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- Nicholas Picardo npicardo@fas.harvard.edu
- Luke Hollis luke@archimedes.digital