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Accession_Number E.62.38
Shape Barrel vase
Shape_description
Material Alabaster
Fabric Egyptian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Alabaster, flat base. Slightly elliptical, with straight lip. No decoration.
Inscriptions
Condition Very large chip out of the lip, crack going from edge of that crack, to and along base and then back up the other side of the vase. Another crack joins this crack together along the shoulder. The crack can be seen on the inside of the pot.
Technique/Style
Provenance Unknown
Period Middle Kingdom: 12 dynasty
Date 1991-1759
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2002.98.0014.jpg
Side view of Egyptian Alabaster Barrel vase showing damage to lip.

2007.03.1246.jpg
Oblique view from above of the side of Egyptian Alabaster Barrel vase showing damage to lip.

2007.03.1247.jpg
Over head view of Egyptian Alabaster Barrel vase showing damage to lip and interior.

2007.03.1248.jpg
Side view from below of Egyptian Alabaster Barrel vase showing the base.

2007.03.1249.jpg
Side view of Egyptian Alabaster Barrel vase.

2007.03.1250.jpg
View of the base of Egyptian Alabaster Barrel vase.
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Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 8.1
Diameters Widest: 5.8
Handle_height
Other_dims. Mouth:4.4
Location Timeline 1 top
Edited_by Leigh; Kinsey
Date_edited 2/8/02; 16.01.2006
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