amphora-cover

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Object Type: amphora-cover
Museum number: EA38438
Description: Pottery amphora-cover with an irregular base, straight sides and a rounded top, decorated with a white slip and four stamped panels each containing the prenomen of Amenhotep III and representations of a lizard and an ibex(one panel is painted black), within is a hollow redware core and vegetal remains.
Cultures/periods: 18th Dynasty
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials: pottery; vegetal
Technique: painted; stamped
Dimensions: Diameter: 14.70 centimetres (maximum); Height: 19 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: royal
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair (incomplete -?)
Associated names: Named in inscription: Amenhotep III
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Miss Selima Harris
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Anthony Charles Harris
Acquisition date: 1875
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA38438
Registration number: 1875,0810.162
Conservation: Treatment: 13 Jan 2003

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