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Eternal Egypt: Glass Jar
An amber beige glass jar, it has a wide rim to protect it from being easily broken. It has a round body, and a circular base ornamented with inclined bands.
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Eternal Egypt: Large Jar
This large clay jar has two big handles and is devoid of any decoration or other adornments. It has a pear-shaped body and a wide mouth.
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Eternal Egypt: Small Jar
This small pottery jar has carved lines on the upper part of the body; it also has two small handles but is devoid of any other decorative elements.
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Eternal Egypt: Osirian Jar
The lid of this white marble jar depicts the head of the god Osiris, while the body is in the shape of the canopic jars that contain the viscera of the deceased. The body of the jar is decorated with a high relief of Harpocrates and Isis.
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Eternal Egypt: Medium Sized Jar
This medium sized jar is made of clay; the decorations on the body are colored in dark brown. The jar was used to hold drinking water.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar With Missing Mouth
This clay jar has a body decorated in dark brown and red; the mouth and part of the neck are missing.
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Eternal Egypt: Hemispherical Recipient
A clay recipient with a hemispherical body and a delicate neck. It has a grip in the form of an ear and a circular base. The body is decorated with a round band at its lower part. It resembles a tea pot, used in the modern time.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar With Stylized Birds
This lustrous faience pot consists of a pear-shaped shaft and a short neck, glazed and decorated with geometrical and animal designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Big Jar for Storing Wine
This clay jar was used for storing wine. It is decorated with a vine and clusters of grapes and embellished with two human faces.
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Eternal Egypt: Big Jar With Four Animals
The jar is divided into segments. The segments contain four symbols that are probably intended to represent the four animals of the Book of Revelations.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar for Storing Dry Goods
This large jar was used to store dry goods. It has decorations representing a bird stretching its wings.
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Eternal Egypt: Model of a Granite Granary
A granite mortar with a wide circular rim and two handles. The upper part of the body is wide and narrows towards the bottom; the base is flat. It was used to grind corn and other hard food.
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Eternal Egypt: Marble Kilga, or Jar Holder
The eight-sided marble kilga, or jar holder, consists of a marble basin with decorations of animals and inscriptions.
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Eternal Egypt: Big Jar With Christian Symbols
This large jar has drawings of people, a peacock or eagle, flowers, and some ornamental shapes on the upper part only.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar With Bolti Fish Decoration
This jar, or zeir, is used for storing dry goods. The decorative motif portrays a big bolti fish and other symbols of Christianity.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar With Hound Attacking a Hare
This lusterware painted ceramic jar is decorated with a vivid scene of a hound attacking a hare.
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Eternal Egypt: Pottery Jar With a Coptic Script
A sealed pottery jar, in which the head of the monastery and his deacon hid some gold coins. Then the father wrote to his sons thirty lines of Coptic script.