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Unfinished calcite cylinder jar

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Title/s	Unfinished calcite cylinder jar
Category	vessel
Name	jar stone vessel
Description	cylinder jar, roughly made
Production Notes	The centre of the vessel was drilled and the outside chiseled to form the basic shape of the vessel. The surface would then have been polished with sand.
Field Collection	El-Kab Egypt
Technique Description	polished
Dimensions	diameter 9.35 cm length 19.5 cm
Period	Old Kingdom
Date	circa 2686 B.C. — 2160 B.C.
Provenance	given: Egyptian Research Account 1898 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Material/s	calcite
Accession Number	E.61.1898 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 49619; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Unfinished calcite cylinder jar