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Description: | This flask had been broken into many parts -22.3.1994. A colourless glass flask broken. Only the neck and part of the body survives. It has a flaring mouth with rounded and everted rim and cylindrical neck. Its body is globular. Within the package, parts of the broken glass are included, from which one is considered to have been part of the base. Judging by this part it can be deduced that the base was also a bit indented. The label accompanying the glass mentioned the place that it was found and the dimensions. The author of this label also mentioned that the flask is dated in the Roman period. (all parts present?) The site of Hawara dates back to the XII Dynasty (c.1985-1795 BC). It was chosen as the mortuary complex of Amenemhet III (c.1855-1808 BC) who built a pyramid here for himself and his daughter Nofruptah after his pyramid at Dahshur was found to be structurally unsafe. Nofruptah was not buried within the pyramid however, and was found to rest in a tomb nearby. The entire mortuary complex was immense and Strabo claims it had more than 1,500 chambers. It was demolished in Roman times and the stones taken for use elsewhere. North of the pyramid is a burial ground dating to the Graeco-Roman period (c.30 BC - 640) and here were found a number of mummy portraits popular at that time.
Accession number: NCM 1911-81 | Subjects: | food and drink? objects of indeterminate use (containers) glass ROMAN EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 30BC-640 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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