Bulbous "drop"-shaped jar. Incised line at the neck, which is damaged. Small neat excavation mark in black "602", quite unlike John Garstang's distinctive thick nibbed black ink on pottery from Beni Hasan.

CONDITION NOTE 1998: Incomplete, large area of rim missing, running cracks from break edges, surface dirt pitted, label adhered to surface.

Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 26 June - 6 July 1922 (MacGregor Collection) Lot 1688: "A large unglazed pottery Vase, with three bands of decoration in pale blue, Six Vases and Bowls, from Professor Garstang's excavations at Esna, 12th Dynasty; a Vase with pointed base from Abydos, 6th Dynasty; and seven other Pieces".

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Bulbous "drop"-shaped jar. Incised line at the neck, which is damaged. Small neat excavation mark in black "602", quite unlike John Garstang's distinctive thick nibbed black ink on pottery from Beni Hasan. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Incomplete, large area of rim missing, running cracks from break edges, surface dirt pitted, label adhered to surface. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 26 June - 6 July 1922 (MacGregor Collection) Lot 1688: "A large unglazed pottery Vase, with three bands of decoration in pale blue, Six Vases and Bowls, from Professor Garstang's excavations at Esna, 12th Dynasty; a Vase with pointed base from Abydos, 6th Dynasty; and seven other Pieces".

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