Ointment Jar

Alabaster vase with tall foot, golbular body, and a high, cylindrical neck and external ledge-rim. A type of stone vase very typical of the Eighteenth Dynasty and one probably used to store perfumed oils and fats. Marked £R. Compare the shape with another vessel published in W. M. F. Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases (London, 1937) no. 849; and Aston (1994) page 151 [cat. no. 173]. Danson Catalogue 2 no. 311. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Worn, chipped base, surface dirt.