A guide to the first and second Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquities, mummies, mummy-cases, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians (1904)
British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities · [London : The Museum] · leaf 43
30 BUFF-COLOURED WARE, 130. Small buff-coloured, burnished, ware vase, ot primitive shape, with twelve pierced projections or “lugs,” and two perforations in the rim; the object of such perforations was to enable the lamp to be suspended by a network of cords like a modern church lamp. This is an… … 135. Ovoid vase of unburnished buff-coloured ware, with suspension handles, ornamented with a series of concentric circles painted in red. Several other vases of the same class are exhibited close by. 137. Double ovoid vase, of the same material and type, and with the same ornamentation. 139.…
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