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Source Description
This small cosmetic vessel is carved with an openwork frieze of heraldic birds flanking a cartouche with the name "King's daughter, Nubet-meryt." Meretnubt was a daughter of King Thutmose I (1504-1492 BCE). Separating the two heraldic groups are two snakes flanking a column. Above the openwork frieze is carved a series of alternating open and closed lotus flowers which ring the neck of the vessel. The glaze is particularly green in appearance.
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Document identity
localId
37477
label
Cosmetic Vessel of Meretnubt
core
obj
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object
citationUrl
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5
Source metadata
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37477
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Cosmetic Vessel of Meretnubt
description
This small cosmetic vessel is carved with an openwork frieze of heraldic birds flanking a cartouche with the name "King's daughter, Nubet-meryt." Meretnubt was a daughter of King Thutmose I (1504-1492 BCE). Separating the two heraldic groups are two snakes flanking a column. Above the openwork frieze is carved a series of alternating open and closed lotus flowers which ring the neck of the vessel. The glaze is particularly green in appearance.
provenance
Price Collection; Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1898; MacGregor Collection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922, no. 279; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1500 BCE (New Kingdom)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
vessels
imageCount
5
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5
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
5.4
height
5.4
dimensionsRaw
2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (5.4 x 5.4 cm) (h. x diam.)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
inscriptions
[Translation] king's daughter
Nubet-meryt
dynasty
18th Dynasty
reign
Thutmosis I (1504-1492 BC)
med
steatite with glaze
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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