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Large plate
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. Cylindrical vessels, with or without rope decoration, have been found since the Predynastic Period.
