- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Red/brown coloured vessel which tapers to a rounded base. Slightly blackened at the base with a small hole present here. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
- PRM source The Estate of Denis Alfred Jex Buxton
- PRM source Cecilia Rachel Buxton
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian 1st Intermediate, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?1885 - 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery
- Dimensions
- Width: max 90 mm, Height: max 214 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.32.49 Other numbers: 430
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