Jar

Alabaster vase with tall foot, golbular body, and a high, cylindrical neck and external ledge-rim. Perfumed oils and ointments were stored in small stone jars like this in the New Kingdom (about 1550 – 1069 BC). Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. A15762. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1922 (MacGregor sale) Lot 963/6. MacGregor collection no. 2426.