Small jar
- Accession Number
- EC1934
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Fakes, forgeries, and replicas case
- Object Type
- Receptacle/vessel, Jar
- Materials
- Natural compounds | Pottery (Nile silt)
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Measurements
- Height: 65mm | Base diameter: 35mm | Maximum diameter: 44mm | Height of maximum diameter: 25mm | Rim diameter: 39mm | Vessel index: 75
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Licensing details
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- Description
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A small bag-shaped jar with parallel lines across the body indicating it has been wheel-made with a string cut base. It is a Nile silt pottery vessel filled 3/4 with a dark fibrous substance. Coursely formed with a flat base, which is slightly uneven. On the base is a thin black marking along with two darker circular marks. Collected by the Reverend John Foulkes Jones, who visited Egypt in 1855. Presented to the Egypt Centre in 2013 by Erica Godman, a descendant of Jones.
- Other Identity
- 2013.10 (Museum entry number)
- Previous Owner
- Rev. John Foulkes Jones (1826–1880)
- Acquisition
- Gift, Erica Godman (08 May 2013)
- Munsell Chart Reading
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Exterior: 2.5 YR 5/6 red | 10YR 7/3 very pale brown
- Vienna System
- Nile B
