Tubular instrument (siphon)
This hollow metal tube has a sieve on the end of the shorter section and was likely used as a straw for drinking beer out of a deep jar. It was part of a small group of metal objects discovered during the 1926–27 season of The Met's Egyptian Expedition in a sand drift at Deir el-Bahari. The excavator, Herbert Winlock, suggested that these objects, whose value lay in their material, were hidden there in antiquity by a thief.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tubular instrument (siphon)
- Period: Ptolemaic Period
- Date: 306–30 B.C.
- Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, MMA excavations, 1927–28
- Medium: Copper
- Dimensions: L. 83 × Dia. 1.3 cm (32 11/16 × 1/2 in.)
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1928
- Object Number: 28.3.165
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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306–30 B.C.
Italian, Florence
ca. 1460–80
ca. 1390–1295 B.C.
664–332 B.C.
Designer Philip Webb
Manufacturer Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Painted by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
1861
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