Red Pottery vase of "tear drop" shape. Three registers of conventionalized blue floral motifs around upper half of body. Rounded base.
Condition: Poor. Rim badly chipped. One side of vase badly pitted and decorations worn.
This set of canopic jars was made to contain the internal organs removed from the body during the mummification process. The four sons of the god Horus were believed to protect these organs. The jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach; the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef, the intestines; the baboon-headed Hapi, the lungs; and human-headed Imsety, the liver.For the latest information about this object, canopic jars, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 22nd-23rd DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Style:
CBS Register: Alabaster vase, excellently preserved. Persian period. 280 mm high. 2 ears [with sketch of rim, lip, and handle]. Continued nos. 4086-4314
Small Mycenaean pottery vase, squat body, buff background with dark reddish-brown marine decorations. 3 handles on the top of body.
Condition: Assembled from many fragments but intact.
Dark green glass. Pointed base, Funnel-shaped body, inward sloping shoulders, slender cylindrical neck with applied ring at middle; wide uneven folded/flanged rim.Blown
2 Pierced Handles; Silver Glaze; Globular Body, Slightly Constricted NeckCBS Register: small white enamelled jar, two handles, rounded bottom, same shape as 12327Glazed
Blue glazed. 2 handles, pointed base, groove on and at base of elongated neck, rolled rim.CBS Register: no field number. clay amphora. with sketch. blue glaze.Glazed
Cast-Ceramic Amphora Handle/StampedCBS Register: cast of a jar handle found at Nippur, Orig in Constant. Rhodian, 2nd or first century BC. presented by H.V.H.Stamped
Amphora, with ovoid body, on low flattened disk-foot, with wide, very high, slightly flaring neck, offset from body, wide mouth with torus-lip. On either side of shoulder an engaged handle, staple-shaped, with a circular perforation at top. Waxy alabaster of rather poor quality. Painted decoration, now almost entirely gone, of a “broad collar” on body, and probably a broad band around neck.
Condition: A chip in lip. Six thin cracks running down from lip. Painting reduced to traces.
Alabaster vase with flat-topped rim, flaring neck, broad shoulder, and broad base. There are two handles on the shoulder and a raised band around the body at the springing of the foot.
Condition: Rim and base chipped; bottom of vase incrusted with dirty.
Terra cotta ampulla. St. Menas frontal. Orans, wearing short tunic and cloak, nimbed; flanked by camels. On reverse an inscription in relief within wreath border.
Condition: Neck broken, entire surface considerably worn.Inscribed: Greek inscription: "Eulogia of St. Menas," as translated by the Index of Christian Art.
Small oval-shaped amuletic case, with a hinged, slightly-domed lid, in gold with repoussé and engraving and polychrome enamel decoration. Decoration depicts flowers - including a central rose, poppies, and other species - on top of lid, and birds and flowers on side of the body. The decoration loosely falls into the gol o bolbol, or bird-and-flower, motif that found great popularity in Iran during the Safavid period and which culminated in the decoration of lacquer objects under the Zand and Qajar dynasties. The base decorated with blue enamel and gold flowers, and the inside of the lid with green enamel. The two small suspension loops indicate the amuletic function.
One blue-green glazed faience aryballos the rim of which is adorned with floral petals, in relief, radiating from the opening. The handle is decorated with a row of vertical bands, which may also represent petals, and a floral collar (incised) adorns the vessel's neck. Part of a similar floral "collar", which rose from the vessel's base, is also preserved. The band of incised decoration is divided into two compartments by two columns of hieroglyphic texts (New Year wishes). In the larger of the two compartments is a recumbent lion, facing left, above which is written Hr dj 'nh snb nb;, a prayer that Horus will give all life and health. The smaller compartment is subdivided into two smaller compartments by a narrow, vertical band.
In one of the smaller compartments is a bird (cf, the hieroglyph p3) above the hieroglyph for gold. In the other compartment are preserved the upper parts of an owl and of a was scepter.
Condition: Large chip of the rim. Most of vessel below main band of decoration is missing, and the lower portions of the two smaller "scenes" are also chipped away. A surface crack runs from the neb sign below the bird up into the adjacent hieroglyphic text. Much brown discoloration on the neck and rim; slight traces of such discoloration on the body.