Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle")
Details of the relief and coloring of the flask suggest it belongs to a more highly colored series than the usual Saite New Year's flasks of pale blue.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle")
- Period: Late Period
- Dynasty: Dynasty 26–30
- Date: ca. 630 BC
- Geography: From Egypt
- Medium: Faience
- Dimensions: H. 10.1 × W. 9.4 × D. 6.9 cm (4 × 3 11/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
- Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Object Number: 30.8.216
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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4th century B.C.
360–343 BCE
ca. 872–664 BCE
664–525 BCE
332–30 BCE
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