Vessel
17.3cm
faience
6.0cm
Blue faience bowl decorated inside with lotus flowers and buds stellating from a central pool. On the outer surface petals radiating upwards from the flat base were represented. The bowl was broken, but was reconstructed.
Excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1909, received by the MFA through subscription to the Egypt Exploration Fund. Accession date: October 1, 1909.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 178, no. 101
- Loat, W.L.S., Ayrton, E.R., Egypt Exploration Found. Excavations at Abydos, Archaeological Reports, 1908-1909, 2-5
- Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Art of Ancient Egypt, Boston 1988, 138-139, no. 76