Object Number |
E14368A |
Current Location |
Collections Storage |
Provenience |
Egypt |
Period |
New Kingdom | Eighteenth Dynasty |
Date Made |
1353-1190 BCE |
Section |
Egyptian |
Materials |
Ceramic |
Technique |
Painted |
Inscription Language |
Hieroglyphic |
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 |
Height |
93.5 cm |
Outside Diameter |
25 cm |
Credit Line |
Gift of Sophia Cadwalader in memory of Eckley B. Coxe Jr., 1926 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Capel, Anne K., and Glen Markoe. Mistress of the House Mistress of the Heaven Women in Ancient Egypt. Hudson Hills Press, New York in association with Cincinnatti Art Museum. |
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Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. See: Page 37 Top row, second left |
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Quick, Jennifer. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. See: p. 100, fig. 89 |
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Ranke, Hermann. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 15, no. 2-3. (1950): 21-109. See: p. 66, fig. 41 |
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