Jar
| Object Number: | E14368A |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Egypt (Mummies Gallery) Currently On Display |
| 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:
| Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Egyptian Daily Life (1977) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 37 Top row, second left | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Markoe, Glen, and Capel, Anne K. Mistress of the House Mistress of the Heaven Women in Ancient Egypt.. Hudson Hills Press, New York in association with Cincinnatti Art Museum. Actual Citation | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 100, fig. 89 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 15. no. 2-3. pg. 21-109 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: fig. 41 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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