Cosmetic Bowl card

Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Cosmetic Bowl

2055 BC - 1650 BC
1973.1.244

Currently not on display

World Museum

Information

Cosmetic bowl with a short base and a wide body that opens up at the top. Ring base. Marked in pencil 18 A'06. Base marked in black 4078. Label with serrated edge stuck to the surface and marked in pencil 968/5. The number 18 A’06 corresponds to a multiple burials described by John Garstang as a group of rectangular shafts forming a single group, and served by a mud-brick superstructure nearby. There are nine ceramic items from 18 A'06 in World Museum (nos. 1973.1.378 and 1977.109.97/98/107/111/115/127/132/135) a stone bowl (1973.1.244) and a fragment of a limestone canopic jar (16.11.06.409). Destroyed in the Second World War were two ceramic vessels (16.11.06.22/23). In the Lady Lever Art Gallery collection is a ceramic jar (LL 5618). CONDITION NOTE (1998): Worn and scratched surface, two labels adhered to surface, adhesive on surface. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 26 June - 6 July 1922 (MacGregor Collection) Lot 968/5: "...a small saucer-shaped Bowl, in arragonite, 3 3/4 in. diam.".

Specifications

Accession number
1973.1.244
Collection type
Container
Culture
Middle Kingdom
Date made
2055 BC - 1650 BC
Collector
Liverpool University Institute of Archaeology
Place collected
Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Abydos
Date collected
1906
Materials
Egyptian Alabaster
Measurements
Overall: 34 mm x 95 mm
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the Wellcome Collection
Legal status
Permanent collection
Provenance
MacGregor, William, Previous owner, Excavation subscription, Owned from: 1906, S…
Location
Item not currently on display
Publications
Mortuary Assemblages from Abydos, Steven Ralph Snape, 1986, Page: 195-6<br/><br/…