Toilet vase
Middle Kingdom
Not on view
This miniature vessel imitates the shape of the large Middle Kingdom storage vessels of marl clay. It was found with other small vessels and the figure of a woman (11.151.745) in a basket (called "toilet basket I" by the excavators) west of the pyramid of Amenemhat I at Lisht North where the basket - like another one ("toilet basket II;" see 44.4.4 and 07.228.19) - was deposited by itself and without a body. The group is dated by the shape of 44.4.3 which can be compared with larger ointment jars found at Dahshur.