Toilet Dish
Second Intermediate Period
According to an analysis this small flask once contained a conifer resin, possibly pine, larch or fir resin imported into Egypt from the Levant. Such resins were used as parts of scented ointments for the daily toilet or during rituals. On the assumption that the group of anhydrite vessels (10.176.46-.53 and 11.150.29 and 12.182.76a, b) said to be from Girga actually belonged together originally a late Second Intermediate Period date can be deduced for all of them from the presence of a number of vessels in the shape of trussed ducks, a type typically in used during that era (see 27.9.1).
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