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Calcite pounder
Jar, with convex sides, inscribed in hieratic with the name of royal secretary Huy. used for grinding pigments.
Height: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
New Kingdom
Eighteenth Dynasty
Circa
-1550
BCE
-
Circa
-1295
BCE
Drilled : Polished
Accession number: E.GA.3049.1943
Primary reference Number: 57479
Oldadmincategory: SA
GayerAnderson: IX.91
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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