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Stone jar
Stone jar, with two lug handles
Alabaster jar or alabastron, which served as an oil container or perfume pot. There are two small lug handles on the shoulders and a band forming the rim. The bottom is rounded. From grave 767 in the Sanam cemetery.
Height: 0.1 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia
Meroitic
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-700
BCE
-
Circa
-600
BCE
Accession number: E.100.1921
Primary reference Number: 52119
Oldadmincategory: S
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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