ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NEW YEAR'S FLASK
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Greco Roman Period, Ca. 30 BC - 200 AD A faience New Year's flask of a lentoid body with twin arched handles flanking the trumpet-shaped spout. Both sides are decorated with a large rosette.This kind of flasks may once have been filled with perfume, oil, or water from the Nile, and it would have been a gift associated with the festive season at the beginning of the new year when the Nile began to flood.Size: L:60mm / W:43mm ; 37gProvenance: Property of a London Art gallery; formerly acquired from a Belgium collector in 2006; formerly in an old French collection since the 1960s.
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NEW YEAR'S FLASK
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