Description:
A typical Egyptian earthenware incense jar or vase. The vase, 4 1/2" high, oval, 3 1/8" x 2 1/2", is decorated on each side with Egyptian heads in brick red with black headdress. The cover, 3 1/2" high, 3" diam., is heavy and hollow, and in the shape of an Egyptian head, with brick red face and elaborate black headdress.
Label Text:
Called an "incense jar" on an early label, the container is instead a garbled modern copy of a type of jar used in ancient Egyptian burials to hold the internal organs after mummification. The human-headed lid imitates a lid from such a jar, while the emblem of the goddess Hathor on the container itself is lifted from another context. The eye-catching decoration may have appealed to Joseph Skinner, who purchased the object in Egypt.
Tags:
ancient; archaeology; reproductions Link to share this object record:
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