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Large dish with thin walls, the exterior is convex with a slightly flattened base. The rim of the dish is curved inwards with the upper part slightly rounded and on the interiopr of the base is a circular groove.
Egypt
Early Dynastic Period/Old Kingdom , 3150-2182 BC
Banded Alabaster
Height 27 cm ( 10 5⁄8 in )
Former private collection France
A. el-Khouli: Egyptian Stone Vessels, Predynastic Period to Dynasty III, Mainz 1978
B.G. Aston: Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels, Heidelberg 1994
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The large dish has thin walls, the exterior is convex with a slightly flattened base. The rim of the dish is curved inwards with the upper part slightly rounded and on the interiopr of the base is a circular groove.
Vases that were part of funerary equipment like this example, first appeared around the third millennium BC.
