Jar
Object Number: | E14368A |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Provenience: | Egypt |
Period: | New Kingdom Eighteenth Dynasty |
Date Made: | 1353-1190 BCE |
Early Date: | -1353 |
Late Date: | -1190 |
Section: | Egyptian |
Materials: | Ceramic |
Technique: | Painted |
Inscription Language: | Hieroglyphic |
Height: | 93.5 cm |
Outside Diameter: | 25 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Sophia Cadwalader in memory of Eckley B. Coxe Jr., 1926 |
Description
Large brightly decorated wine jar painted with blue bands of decoration (both floral and rings).There is a single line of inscription on the shoulder of the vessel describing the type of wine (hamu) and linking the name of its owner (Menedjem) with the funerary god Osiris
Current & Past Exhibitions:
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