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Lentoid cosmetic vase

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Fine red polished lentoid vase, of a form, size and quality indicating that it must have been used to contain cosmetics. It is one of several luxury vessels among the goods from Abydos, cemetery D, tomb 116, which had been robbed in antiquity, but was one of the wealthier vaulted tombs there from the period of the reign of Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty.

Present location

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

Inventory number

1913:240

Dating

18TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site

ABYDOS

Category

VASE

Material

POTTERY

Technique

FORMED ON THE POTTER'S WHEEL

Height

15.5 cm

Width

10.5 cm

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