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Description: | Stone mortar with lug handle, travertine . Aston type 199a, convex profile. 52mm high. See Brovarski, et al. 1982. 'Egypt's Golden Age: the Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 BC' Museum of Fine Arts Boston p 132 for a similar example from Abydos dating to the New Kingdom. Such mortars could have been used to grind spices, fruits or other foods as well as eye paint. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | Aston Type 199 | Temporal: | New Kingdom | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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