- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Votive funerary vase. Narrow, tapering body with a pointed base and small mouth. Unglazed. [ASh [OPS move] 16/02/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Henri Edouard Naville
- Field collector Henry Reginald Holland Hall
- PRM source Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom
- Date collected
- 1903 - 1904
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1904
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: max 171 mm, Width: max 63 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1904.35.73
- Research and responses
Naville is possibly Edouard Naville, the author of ‘The Temple of Deir el Bahari’ and ‘The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari’ [CW 20/1/2000]; this is definitely the case [RTS 12/1/2005].
- Associated publications
- See Pinch, G. (1993) Votive Offerings for Hathor. (Oxford). [AS 06/09/2010]
Search terms: Vessel, Death, Religion, Religious Offering
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