Pottery shoulder jar with flat base, [(Mycerinus) Type XVIII]; wheel made, exterior scraped (leaving haphazard smoothing marks), red slip on exterior; missing about three-quarters of neck and rim, but otherwise complete.
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / possibly I 365-382)
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- Material
- Pottery (Nile Silt)
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- Dimensions
- Rim diameter: 8 cm; Base diameter: 6.4 cm; Maximum diameter: 13 cm; Height: 19.2 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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- 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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Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 218, fig. 68 no. 2.
