New Year´s flask
New Years´s Flask.
During the 18th Dynasty, it became common practice to present bottles like this as gifts during new year celebrations. The flasks originally designed as perfume bottles were filled with the water of the Nile on the first day of the year and often engraved with hieroglyphs wishing a happy new year.
26th dynasty, from Gebelin
S.12498
Egypt of Glory – The Last Great Dynasties, Amos Rex - Helsinki 9.10.2020 - 21.3.2021
Collection of Museo Egizio, Turin.
New Year´s flask
New Years´s Flask.
During the 18th Dynasty, it became common practice to present bottles like this as gifts during new year celebrations. The flasks originally designed as perfume bottles were filled with the water of the Nile on the first day of the year and often engraved with hieroglyphs wishing a happy new year.
26th dynasty, from Gebelin
S.12498
Egypt of Glory – The Last Great Dynasties, Amos Rex - Helsinki 9.10.2020 - 21.3.2021
Collection of Museo Egizio, Turin.