Situla
1969.112.35
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Cast bronze situla decorated with two registers. Corroded surface and handle is missing. Situla is a Latin word for bucket, and this object would have contained a liquid and be used during religious rituals in a tomb or temple.
Top register: Baboon adores shrine boat and another boat.
Lower register: Altar bearing lotus before ithyphalic Amun, Isis and Nephthys holding wadj-scepres, and another deity.
Excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society, from Square H5, 'redim' H5-305 [977].
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Highly corroded, small area of fresh corrosion, white crystals on surface, treated with Benzotriazol, August 1987.