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LOT 0030
Romano-Egyptian Alabaster Alabastron
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (7.71 grams, 44 mm).
Small alabastron in banded Egyptian calcite-alabaster, pointed ovoid body and tall neck divided by a broad annular collar and finished with a plain straight rim.
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market in 1990s.
English private collection.
Cf. The British Museum, London, inv. nos. 1867,0508.712; 1856,1226.1753; 1881,0824.146; 1850,0805.5.
FootnotesA well-attested type produced from the Twenty-Seventh Dynasty through the Ptolemaic period and continuing into the early Julio-Claudian era.
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