Clear iridescent glass bottle or unguentarium with a conical body, tall cylindrical neck and a flat base. Body of the flask has been badly broken and repaired, several holes in body.

Purchased from Mr E. E. Sellar in 1964, inherited from his father who worked on the construction of the first dam across the Nile (the Aswan low dam) built between 1898 and 1902. 

CONDITION NOTE 1999: Incomplete, previous repair, iridescent with some flaking areas, chipped, surface dirt.

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Clear iridescent glass bottle or unguentarium with a conical body, tall cylindrical neck and a flat base. Body of the flask has been badly broken and repaired, several holes in body. Purchased from Mr E. E. Sellar in 1964, inherited from his father who worked on the construction of the first dam across the Nile (the Aswan low dam) built between 1898 and 1902. CONDITION NOTE 1999: Incomplete, previous repair, iridescent with some flaking areas, chipped, surface dirt.

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