Miniature vessel in the shape of a goblet. Rough & narrow shape, solid base with rounded rim. Miniature vessels like this one would have been used as offering in the mortuary cult of a private individual within a tomb chapel, or for royalty within the temple of a pyramid complex. Collected by Amy Urlin and Hilda Petrie by the pyramid of King Menkaure at Giza, November 1900.

CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, surface loss, residue on surface, surface dirt.

Miniature Vessel | National Museums Liverpool

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Miniature vessel in the shape of a goblet. Rough & narrow shape, solid base with rounded rim. Miniature vessels like this one would have been used as offering in the mortuary cult of a private individual within a tomb chapel, or for royalty within the temple of a pyramid complex. Collected by Amy Urlin and Hilda Petrie by the pyramid of King Menkaure at Giza, November 1900. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, surface loss, residue on surface, surface dirt.

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