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THBImpressive Egyptian Alabaster Mortar w/ Four Handles
Lot 5c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A finely preserved mortar of a sizable form, hand-carved from honey-yellow alabaster. The vessel is defined by a flat circular base, a tall hemispherical body with a deep basin, a flat shoulder, and four protruding handles spaced equidistantly around the circumference. The surfaces of the shoulder and top half of the basin walls are incredibly smooth to the touch, and the lower half of the basin exhibits a coarse texture perhaps formed from centuries of gradual degradation. In ancient Egypt, mortars and pestles were used for a variety of tasks, including dehusking hulled wheat, making pastes for construction, grinding ingredients for medicinal remedies, and pulverizing other foodstuffs, though they were perhaps used as funerary offering bowls for its deceased owner. Smaller mortars have been found in the domestic housing at workmen's villages excavated at Deir el-Medina and Amarna. Size: 15.1" W x 6.8" H (38.4 cm x 17.3 cm).
A stylistically similar example, of a much smaller size and carved from banded alabaster, hammered for $8,750 at Christie's, New York "Antiquities" auction (sale 2605, December 5, 2012, lot 135).
Provenance: private J.H. collection, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, acquired before 2017; ex-Relics of the Nile, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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#149586Original pestle missing. Minor chips and abrasions to basin, handles, body, and base, with light encrustations, and light pitting in some areas, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits throughout, and smooth patina along shoulders, body, and top half of basin interior.Condition
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