IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150631 accession number: E.P.554 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clay storage jar with painted decoration. Only part of the shoulder is preserved. The vessel was wheelmade and covered on the outside with a slip (a mixture of water, pigment and clay). the decoration consists of an orange slip with painted red and black lotus buds and a partly opened flower. Jars similar to these have been found in temple areas and it is thought that they may have been dedicated there. It is also possible that priests living in the quarters around the temples also used such vessels. This fragment came into the museum probably through the Oxford Nubia Expedition, but because there were a number of fragments the objects were never formally registered. The clay is typical of that from southern Egypt/Nubia. object type: Clay storage jar with painted decoration. title: storage jar LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150631 TECHNIQUES ---------- wheelmade CATEGORIES ------ category: vessel DATING ------ creation date: 100 - 300 creation date earliest: 100 creation date latest: 300 culture: Roman DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: m value: 0.06 dimension: Width units: m value: 0.092 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_P_554.jpg height: 584 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_P_554.jpg height: 384 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_P_554.jpg height: 584 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_P_554.jpg height: 192 pixels width: 250 pixels