Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Pottery model jar with pointed base, [(Mycerinus) Type XVI]; red burnish; complete, chip in rim.
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- ID
- MFAB_47.1936
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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 / I 391 sub-iii)
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.5 x 5.5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
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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 6
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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. 217, fig. 67 no. 5, p. 271.
ID: HUMFA_A426_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Dynasty 6 pottery from Menkaure valley temple (1910): top row: I 366(?) (= MFA 47.2102), I 314-318 (= MFA 47.1919), III 382-i (= MFA 47.1931), I 321(sub)-v (= MFA 47.1916), I 396(sub)-i, I 326-i (= MFA 47.2111), I 304-5; second row: I __ (= MFA 47.2106), I 325-352 (= MFA 09.816), I __ (= MFA 47.1928, dish with wavy rim), I 326-ii (squat flat bottomed jar), I 312-i (= MFA 47.1921), I 331-355, I 317(sub)-349 (= MFA 47.1906); third row: III 21-60, I 317-350 (= MFA 47.2140), court debris above paved causeway-33, I 17-314, I 321(sub)-vi; bottom row: III 21-(57 or 59), III 21-386, I 364-i (= MFA 47.1915), I 391(sub)-iii (= MFA 47.1936)