A group of five large plainware pottery jars including one decorated with dark encircling lines -- 10 7/8in. (27.7cm.) high; three miniature Nile silt ware jars and a dish, mainly Dynasty XVIII (1550-1307 B.C.); a pottery pilgrim flask -- 5 1/8in. (13cm.) high; a turquoise glazed composition knobbed lid -- 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) diam., both circa 600 B.C.; a blue glazed pottery chalice fragment, with moulded lotus leaf pattern; an alabaster vessel fragment; a fragment of a limestone lid, all Dynasty XVIII, from Tell el Amarna; and a North African red burnished pottery bowl with geometric design around the rim -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) high (15)

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A group of five large plainware pottery jars including one decorated with dark encircling lines -- 10 7/8in. (27.7cm.) high; three miniature Nile silt ware jars and a dish, mainly Dynasty XVIII (1550-1307 B.C.); a pottery pilgrim flask -- 5 1/8in. (13cm.) high; a turquoise glazed composition knobbed lid -- 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) diam., both circa 600 B.C.; a blue glazed pottery chalice fragment, with moulded lotus leaf pattern; an alabaster vessel fragment; a fragment of a limestone lid, all Dynasty XVIII, from Tell el Amarna; and a North African red burnished pottery bowl with geometric design around the rim -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) high (15)

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Handwritten ink labels, some with excavation reference numbers

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