kohl-jar;
alabastron(possibly)
- Description
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'Alabaster kohl flask' according to register, but could be alabastron carved from calcite.
- Production date
- 550 BC - 450 BC (possibly)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The bulk of stone vessels discovered in Naukratis are alabastra in calcite and it is possible that the "alabaster kolh flask" mentioned in the Brooklyn museum's register corresponds to one of these. Evidence for the local production of vessels in calcite is given by the discovery of “many thousands of alabaster drill cores from tubular drilling” as well as unfinished vessels in the same material found in the temenos of Apollo in 1885, between the temple and the north-west corner of the temenos (Petrie 1886, 15). Most of these vessels should be dated to the second half of the 6th or latest first half of the 5th century BC.
Petrie, W. M. F. 1886, Naukratis. Part I., 1884-5 (Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 3), London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 999.E.124 (Accession Number)
