Vase

E15709

From: Egypt | Balabish

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E15709
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Balabish
Locus B101
Period New Kingdom | Eighteenth Dynasty
Date Made 1539-1292 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Alabaster
Iconography Nude Woman | Girdle | Lute
Description

Small calcite vase in the form of a swaybacked woman with a protruding stomach. The figure is naked except for a girdle and she carries a lute. This is a rare form.

Height 17.8 cm
Width 7.6 cm
Depth 8.9 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the Egyptan Exploration Fund; G. A. Wainwright, 1920
Other Number B 101 - Original Number

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