Alabaster sacrificial altar, 3200-2650 BC
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Links to other views:⇒ Larger View⇒ Bottom if scripting is off, click the ⇒ instead. Links to others from Early Dynastic Period/Thinite PeriodEarly-dynastic alabaster bowl, 3100-2686 BCGilded wooden statuette. Early Dynastic Stone alabastron, 3150-2700 BC Stone alabastron, Egypt, 3200-2800 BC |
This alabaster sacrificial altar provides a shallow depression on a disk shape with a regular rim, three lugs to use as handles, and a thick stubby spout. It may come from as early as Dynasty 0, but no later than Dynasty 3, just after the Thinite Period (3200-2650 BC).Bibliography (for this item)Adams, Barbara1988 Predynastic Egypt. Shire, Princesss Risborough, United Kingdom. Arnold, Dorothea (editor) 1999 When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Charron, Alain 1990 L’époque Thinite. In l’Egypte des Millenaires Obscurs. p. 78-98. Hatier et Musées Nationaux, Paris, France. Durand, Agnès 1990 Ces Millenaires que l’on dit obscurs. In l’Egypte des Millenaires Obscurs. p. 15-18. Hatier et Musées Nationaux, Paris, France. Hoffman, Michael A. 1991 Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization. 2nd edition. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX. Rice, Michael 1991 Egypt’s Making: The Origin’s of Ancient Egypt, 5000-2000 B.C.. Routledge, New York, NY. |
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