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New Year's bottles, or New Year's flasks, are an archaeological type of lentoid bottles found in the cultures of Ancient Egypt. [1] These bottle were filled with water from the Nile, or possibly with perfume or oil, and offered as celebratory gifts for the New Year. [2] Since the Egyptian New year began at the start of the flood season ...
Egyptian Museum, Cairo Hunters Palette: 30.5 x 15 cm (12 x 6 in) British Museum (smaller fragment in Louvre) Libyan Palette (original, approximated: 70 x 25 cm) (ht x width) Egyptian Museum, Cairo (surviving dimensions: ~18.5 x ~21 cm, (7 x 8 in)) (ht x width) Min Palette El Amrah Palette – Narmer Palette Great Hierakonpolis Palette: 64 x 42 cm
Canopic Chest of Khonsu, 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom Canopic jars are v-shaped vessels that are hollowed out in the middle and topped with either plain or iconographic stoppers. They ranged in heights from about 14 to 50 cm (5.5 to 20 in), including the lid, and in diameters of anywhere from 6 to 20 cm (2.4 to 7.9 in).
Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient Egypt. [1] First and foremost, ceramics served as household wares for the storage, preparation, transport, and consumption of food, drink, and raw materials. Such items include beer and wine mugs and water jugs, but also bread moulds, fire pits, lamps, and stands for ...
Due to the ushabti's commonness through all Egyptian time periods, and world museums' desire to represent ancient Egyptian art objects, the ushabti is one of the most commonly represented objects in Egyptology displays. Produced in huge numbers, ushabtis, along with scarabs, are the most numerous of all ancient Egyptian antiquities to survive.
Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: invertebrates and lesser animals (3) M § Trees and plants: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: trees and plants (6) N § Sky, earth, water: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: sky-earth-water (16) NU § Upper nile: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs by category (27) NL § Lower nile: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs by category (27) O
Mystery surrounds a 200-year-old bottle of urine found on a Cleethorpes building site. It was discovered by workers who were digging trenches at a property in Sea View Street last year.
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