This large, polished calcite jar is reminiscent of early Egyptian lug-handle jars of marl clay from ca. 2700 BCE. Large calcite lug-handle jars were filled with oil and other offerings and were donated to temples in the Late and Ptolemaic periods. Often, these jars carried Greek or multilanguage inscriptions, naming the king or gods honored with an offering.1
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Allen, Thomas George. 1923. A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.; Clay, Albert Tobias. 1910. “A Vase of Xerxes.” The Museum Journal I, no. 1 (June 1910): 6–7. https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/18/. ↩︎
Bibliography
- Allen 1923
- Allen, Thomas George. 1923. A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.
- Clay 1910
- Clay, Albert Tobias. 1910. “A Vase of Xerxes.” The Museum Journal I, no. 1 (June 1910): 6–7. https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/18/