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Convex dish

2490–2472 B.C.
FindspotEgypt
Medium/TechniqueAnorthosite gneiss
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 7 x 13.5 cm (2 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number11.635
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceFrom the Menkaura (Mycerinus) Valley Temple, Giza. 1911: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
(Accession date: March 2, 1911)