Alabastron (Perfume Vase) card

Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

Alabastron (Perfume Vase)

664 BC – 30 BC
1977.112.159

Currently not on display

World Museum

Information

Long narrow body with a rounded end; two lugs high up on the body; and a narrow neck supporting a wide flat mouth. Compare with W. M. F. Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases (London, 1937) no. 956. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Pitted, cracked, cork in mouth, chipped, surface dirt. Danson Catalogue 2 no. 120.

Specifications

Accession number
1977.112.159
Collection type
Container
Culture
Late Period; Ptolemaic
Date made
664 BC – 30 BC
Collector
Francis Chatillon Danson
Place collected
Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
Date collected
1926 before
Materials
Egyptian Alabaster
Measurements
Overall: 94 mm x 37 mm
Credit line
Bequest of Lt. Col. John Raymond Danson
Legal status
Permanent collection
Provenance
Danson, Edith, Previous owner, Inherited, Owned from: 1926-07-03, Bequest, Owned…
Location
Item not currently on display
Publications
Museum Acquisitions, 1978 in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology vol. 66, Janine…