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FRAGMENTARY SECTION OF A SMALL JAR

Turned alabaster

Height: 14.5cm

Museum number: M863

Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 277help-vermeule-catalogue-number

On display: Dome Area
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Curatorial note

Half of a small, ovoid alabaster jar with rounded lip. The material is cut so that the strata of the grain form a series of ring bands about the body.

An article of either household or more likely, from the material, funerary use.

Provenance help-art-provenance

Unrecorded.


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