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An elegant blue-green faience offering cup. The vessel is conical in form with a flaring foot and shallow inner cavity.

Egyptian New Kingdom to Ptolemaic period: Circa 1200-30 BC.

Complete and intact.

Height 4.3 cms (1.7 ins).

Provenance: Ex Katy Williams Pars Antique 1980's

These offering cups contained the various sacred perfumed oils that were used during both funeral and daily rites. This little cup would have been a part of an offering tray where it would have been set on a base with similar vessels containing various sacred unguents.