OLD KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 2100-664 B.C.
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN MINIATURE STONE VESSELS
OLD KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 2100-664 B.C.
Including an Egyptian anhydrite vessel, Middle Kingdom, circa 1850 B.C., 4 cm. high; a Predynastic miniature alabaster twin handled jar, circa 3100 B.C., 4 cm. high; another similar in limestone, circa 3100 B.C.; a black stone cosmetic jar, New Kingdom, 8 cm. high; a Late Old Kingdom alabaster cylindrical jar with flaring everted rim, circa 2100 B.C., 8 cm. high; and a fragmentary cosmetic(?) vessel with relief vestigial handles, early 1st Millennium B.C., 8.5 cm. high (6)
OLD KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 2100-664 B.C.
Including an Egyptian anhydrite vessel, Middle Kingdom, circa 1850 B.C., 4 cm. high; a Predynastic miniature alabaster twin handled jar, circa 3100 B.C., 4 cm. high; another similar in limestone, circa 3100 B.C.; a black stone cosmetic jar, New Kingdom, 8 cm. high; a Late Old Kingdom alabaster cylindrical jar with flaring everted rim, circa 2100 B.C., 8 cm. high; and a fragmentary cosmetic(?) vessel with relief vestigial handles, early 1st Millennium B.C., 8.5 cm. high (6)
Provenance
Acquired in the 1960s or early 1970s.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Historisch Museum, Bezeten Bezit, Keuzetentoonstelling uit de verzameling van Mevrouw Elias-Vaes te Rotterdam, exhibition catalogue, 18 April - 1 August 1970, no. 708.
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