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OLD KINGDOM, DYNASTY V, REIGN OF DJEDKARE ISESI, 2388-2356 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR
OLD KINGDOM, DYNASTY V, REIGN OF DJEDKARE ISESI, 2388-2356 B.C.
The tall conical vessel on a flaring foot with thin walls and an overhanging disk rim, inscribed vertically at the center of one side in finely-designed hieroglyphs reading, "The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Djed-Ka-Re, living eternally"
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high
OLD KINGDOM, DYNASTY V, REIGN OF DJEDKARE ISESI, 2388-2356 B.C.
The tall conical vessel on a flaring foot with thin walls and an overhanging disk rim, inscribed vertically at the center of one side in finely-designed hieroglyphs reading, "The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Djed-Ka-Re, living eternally"
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high
Provenance
Omar Pascha Collection, inventory no. 134.
Literature
Collection de Feu Omar Pacha Sultan, Le Caire, Catalogue descriptif, I, Art égyptien, Paris, 1929 (illustrated to the right on the bottom shelf of Vitrine 3).