EGYPT, SMALL ALABASTER ALABASTRON
EGYPT, SMALL ALABASTER ALABASTRON
Layered alabaster, oval-shaped body tapering to cylindrical neck with small ring halfway, quite tall stopper with pierced ring handle, traces of original ointment inside.
Ex priv. coll. M. de W., Netherlands, inherited, acq. 1991
H. 12,2 cm. Intact
Late Ptolemaic- early Roman Period, 1st cent. BC-1st cent. AD
Cf. Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases, repr. 1977 Aris&Phillips Ltd, England, p.15, no.995, pl. XXXVIII
€ 3.250