Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Pottery flat bottomed basin with recurved rim and tubular spout, [(Mycerinus) Type XXXVI]; red burnish; spout broken off, plus eight other small fragments.
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- ID
- MFAB_47.2178
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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 302 sub-16/36)
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- Overall: 14 x 23 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/16 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 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; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
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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. 226, p. 227, fig. 77 no. 1, p. 267.
ID: HUMFA_A425_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Dynasty 4 pottery from Menkaure valley temple (1910), all except one from room I 302: top row: I 302(sub)-29/49 (= MFA 09.817, bowl), I 302(sub)-15/35 (= MFA 47.1917, jar), I 302(sub)-3/23 (= MFA 47.1932, bowl); second row: I 302(sub)-25/45 (= MFA 47.1927, basin with tubular spout), I 302(sub)-50 (ring stand), I 302(sub)-17/37 (= MFA 47.1918, basin with tubular spout), I __-__ (small flat bottomed jar), I 302(sub)-16/36 (= MFA 47.2178, basin with tubular spout); third row: I 302(sub)-32/52 (= MFA 47.2105, bowl), I 302(sub)-18/38 (= MFA 47.2179, carinate bowl), I 302(sub)-40 (bowl); bottom row: I 302(sub)-24/44 (= MFA 47.1933, bowl), I 302(sub)-32 (deep basin with tubular spout), I 302(sub)-31/51 (= MFA 47.1923, bowl)
ID: HUMFA_C2611_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Pottery from Menkaure valley temple, room I 302: I 302(sub)-17/37 (= MFA 47.1918, basin with tubular spout), I 302(sub)-16/36 (= MFA 47.2178, basin with tubular spout)