Jar - E14368A | Collections

Object Number:	E14368A
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:

Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)

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Bibliography:

[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] 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] 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: p. 66, fig. 41	View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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