5 in. (12.7 cm.) high excl. handle

Horst and Luise Föehr collection, Cairo and Bonn.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above in 1972.

S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, Mainz am Rhein, 1993, pp. 26-27, no. 12.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 103, no. R-382.

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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The tapering vessel is engraved with a scene and accompanying hieroglyphic text, depicting three male figures, in front of a procession of four deities, each captioned: 'Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands'; 'Amun-Opet'; 'Mut; 'Khonsu in Thebes, Nefer-hotep'. There are five columns of text above, reading 'Life, Prosperity, Health, and a Good Lifespan to Khonsu-iir-di-s(u), Justified; his son Di-Amen-en-Khonsu; [his son] Nes-pa-nefer-her', a long column between reading 'Praise of Amen-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands, [Foremost in] Karnak, [Lord] of Heaven, Ruler of his [sic] Thebes, that he may give', separating them a horizontal band of hieroglyphs below '[. . . praising or addressing?] the face of (my) Lord Amen[-Re?] in order to request Life, Prosperity, Health and a Good Lifespan; made [by] the Bearer of the Offering-loaves(?) of Amen-Opet, Hori, Justified. He says: [. . . .]'.