Toilet vase

Unknown

ca. 1850–1775 B.C. · Faience · Egyptian Art

This miniature vessel imitates the shape of the large Middle Kingdom storage vessels of marl clay. 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 the shape of 44.4.3 which can be compared with larger ointment jars found at Dahshur.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1850–1775 B.C.

Medium

Faience

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1944