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Title wooden jar containing honey
Collection Artworld: Oriental Museum
Description Wooden jar carved in the style of a glass or stone cosmetic jar. It has a small base, a globular shouldered body and a wide conical neck that splays out to form a rim. There are two vertical loop handles from the top of the shoulder.
Description Source Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 182
Cultural Context Egyptian
Id Number Former Accession N1428
Location Creation Site Misr
Location Current Repository The Oriental Museum
Subject receptacle/vessel, jar, technology, animal, cosmetica
Measurements 75 x 92 x 72 mm
Rights Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved
Rights Owner OM
Work Type jar

 

 

 

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