Toilet box
This large wooden box, cleverly constructed with a sliding lid, contained a smaller box, also of wood, and five small travertine (Egyptian alabaster) cosmetic vessels. From the same tomb came an offering tray, a rush bag, a silver ring, a mud stopper that once covered a jar, a copper chisel, and four linen marks, one of which bore the name of Queen Neferu, wife of Mentuhotep II.
Artwork Details
- Title: Toilet box
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 11
- Reign: reign of Mentuhotep II, possibly
- Date: ca. 2051–2000 B.C.
- Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 101, Chamber 4, east, MMA excavations, 1926–27
- Medium: Wood
- Dimensions: H. 29 × W. 14 × D. 11.5 cm (11 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1927
- Object Number: 27.3.1
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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