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2 of 2 • Pottery from Menkaure valley temple, room III 19: III 19-4 (bread mold), III 19-1 (= MFA 47.1903, jar), III 19-5 (bowl with knob feet)
Pottery from Menkaure valley temple, room III 19: III 19-4 (bread mold), III 19-1 (= MFA 47.1903, jar), III 19-5 (bowl with knob feet)
Pottery from Menkaure valley temple, room III 19: III 19-4 (bread mold), III 19-1 (= MFA 47.1903, jar), III 19-5 (bowl with knob feet)
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Slender pottery shoulder jar with modeled rolled rim and slightly funnel-shaped neck, [(Mycerinus) Type VIII]; body handmade (coiled), neck and rim wheel made; broken at base, but otherwise complete.
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- ID
- MFAB_47.1903
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / III 19-1)
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- Material
- Pottery (Marl Clay)
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- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 8.5 cm; Maximum diameter: approx. 11.6 cm; Height as preserved: 23 cm
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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
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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; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
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- Remarks
- Object not registered (no registration records for 1910).
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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. 214, p. 215, fig. 65 no. 13, p. 264 (misdentified as Type IX).
