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Stone vessels from Menkaure valley temple: alabaster ovoid jars: Egg. 5 (= MFA 11.411), Egg. 4 (= MFA 11.413)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C2779_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
  • Date
    April 1910
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: Egg as opposed to Egy based on bulk of notation see Box R8 and R9; hardstone corrected to read alabaster; mounted print labeled: 4 on left, 5 on right, but order of display reversed, 5 on left, 4 on right; objects not registered (no registration records from this date); MFA accession numbers verified
  • Photographer
    Badawi Ahmed (expedition photographer)

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