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Handle

Object Number:E7143.2
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Ptolemaic
Provenience: Egypt
Nubia
Karanog Cemetery
Locus: G 316
Period: Hellenistic Period
Ptolemaic Period
Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made: 305 - 30 BCE
Early Date: -305
Late Date: -30
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Bronze
Height: 15 cm
Credit Line:The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908

Description

Bronze: tinned. Handle now separate from jug. Decoration on handle: female mask, leaf setting, second mask above.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

The Classical World: Rome ( Apr 1958 - 1975) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Randall-MacIver, David, and Woolley, Charles L. 1910. Karanog; the Romano-Nubian Cemetery (plates).. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia, IV. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Plate 31View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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