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This marble bowl is among a number of grave goods placed in the rich burial of a woman and child at Qurneh in Egypt, sometime in the 17th Dynasty. It was found within a basket containing a horn, bronze cutter, sharpening stone, flints and a ball of thread.

The bowl, here pictured upside down, has an incurved rim and a base rim formed by the tails of four apes whose bodies are carved on the bowl.

During the time of the burial, Egypt was politically divided, with Thebes as the centre of one of several Egyptian kingdoms. Qurneh was the burial place of the kings and queens of Thebes in the 17th Dynasty. This fact, together with the rich grave goods, suggests that the woman may have been a queen.

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• Online ID: 000-180-001-481-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1909.527.33
• Date: 17th Dynasty
  2nd Intermediate Period: 17th Dynasty (around 1641 to 1539 BC)
  
• Material:
• Dimensions: 128 mm D
  
• What:
• Subject: Cosmetics
  
• Who: Professor W.M. Flinders Petrie (Excavator)
  
• Where: Ancient Egypt, Qurneh
  
• Event:
• Description: Bowl in blue anhydrite with an incurved rim and a base rim formed by the tails of four apes whose bodies are carved on the bowl: Ancient Egyptian, excavated at Qurneh, 17th Dynasty
  
• References:
  • Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Qurneh. London: School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909. 
  • Qurneh / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. London, B.S.A.E. & B. Quaritch, 1909, 6 - 10 
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