| Object Number |
E14368A |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Egypt |
| Period |
New Kingdom | Eighteenth Dynasty |
| Date Made |
1353-1190 BCE |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Technique |
Painted |
| Inscription Language |
Hieroglyphic |
| Description |
Large brightly decorated wine jar painted with blue bands of decoration (both floral and rings).There is a single line of inscription on the shoulder of the vessel describing the type of wine (hamu) and linking the name of its owner (Menedjem) with the funerary god Osiris |
| Height |
93.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
25 cm |
| Credit Line |
Gift of Sophia Cadwalader in memory of Eckley B. Coxe Jr., 1926 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Capel, Anne K., and Glen Markoe. Mistress of the House Mistress of the Heaven Women in Ancient Egypt. Hudson Hills Press, New York in association with Cincinnatti Art Museum, 1996. |
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| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. See: Page 37 Top row, second left |
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| Quick, Jennifer. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. See: p. 100, fig. 89 |
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| Ranke, Hermann. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 15, no. 2-3. (1950): 21-109. See: p. 66, fig. 41 |
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