Toilet vase

Middle Kingdom

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This miniature vessel imitates the shape of the typical Middle Kingdom ointment jar. It was found with other small vessels and the figure of a woman (11.151.745) in a basket (called "toilet basket I" by the excavators) west of the pyramid of Amenemhat I at Lisht North where the basket - like another one ("toilet basket II;" see 44.4.4 and 07.228.19) - was deposited by itself and without a body. The group is dated by comparison with ointment jars found at Dahshur and in the box of Kemeni (26.7.1439a, b-.1441a, b, .1442).

Toilet vase, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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