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M13814

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Aqua blue/green faience rectangular slab with four conical shaped containers (diameter of base of each is around 21 mm). Only one of these containers survives in situ: all three others are missing (extra dimensions: top of surviving vessel is 8 mm in diameter with mouth being 5 mm in diameter). Identification of this type of object is still not certain. They may possibly have served a funerary/religious purpose, such as a container for oils or a models of jars or granary bins. Traditionally they have been considered to be containers for cosmetics or paints used by a scribe,