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Lot Essay
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Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 85, no. 36.
Cf. W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, II, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 207-209, fig. 123 for a slender ovoid handled pottery jar, perhaps pointing to a Cypro-Palestinian influence at this time. Hayes writes, 'Four long-necked little pottery jugs (fig. 123) coming from Theban burials of the earlier Thutmoside period, were almost certainly imports into Egypt, probably from Palestine-Syria. Of a type well known and widely distributed throughout the eastern Mediterranean world, they are made of a hard, fine-grained black ware not apparently indigenous to Egypt. The same ware was used in the manufacture of a slender ovoid vase without handles, also of non-Egyptian type.' The choice of material in the above vase suggests it was made in Egypt but influenced from outside. Cf. Exhibition catalogue, Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Boston, 1982, p. 164, no. 178 for a similar shape.
The shape suggests this flask might have contained opium exported from the Mediterranean, which was used for its medicinal properties.
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 85, no. 36.
Cf. W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, II, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 207-209, fig. 123 for a slender ovoid handled pottery jar, perhaps pointing to a Cypro-Palestinian influence at this time. Hayes writes, 'Four long-necked little pottery jugs (fig. 123) coming from Theban burials of the earlier Thutmoside period, were almost certainly imports into Egypt, probably from Palestine-Syria. Of a type well known and widely distributed throughout the eastern Mediterranean world, they are made of a hard, fine-grained black ware not apparently indigenous to Egypt. The same ware was used in the manufacture of a slender ovoid vase without handles, also of non-Egyptian type.' The choice of material in the above vase suggests it was made in Egypt but influenced from outside. Cf. Exhibition catalogue, Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Boston, 1982, p. 164, no. 178 for a similar shape.
The shape suggests this flask might have contained opium exported from the Mediterranean, which was used for its medicinal properties.