Jar

Ovoid shaped jar with tall wide neck, high shoulders and a ring base. There is a filter within the opening. From the British School of Archaeology in Egypt 1909-110 excavations at Memphis directed by Sir Flinders Petrie. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum registation number 53/1956. Purchased from Mrs Bushe-Fox, widow of Mr Bushe-Fox who was with Sir Flinders Petrie in 1909 and 1911. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Chipped rim, pitted, pale orange chalk on surface, surface dirt. Joscelyn Plunkett Bushe-Fox (1880-1954) a British archaeologist and from 1920 Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments. In his early years worked as an artist for the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (1909-1911). He acquired a small range of archaeological finds from this time, at sites including Gezeh and Memphis. Following his death his wife, Cicely, sold his collection of antiquities to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in December 1955.