New Year's Flask

mid 7th-mid 6th century BCE (Late Period)

12.2 cm 14.5 cm 6.7 cm

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This lentil-shaped New Year's flask has two small baboons that appear at either side of the neck atop a band of hieroglyphic inscriptions. Such flasks may once have held a liquid used in a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new agricultural year, which began in late summer,...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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