Pottery Drinking Cup
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Dynasty 18 (1550-1295 BCE)
Nile silt, red slip, black painted rim
Overall: 6 1/8 × 2 3/4 in. (15.5 × 7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
39.64.6669
Geography
Place Made: Diospolis Parva (Hu) Y28, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
2000-1000 BCE
Object Name
Vessel
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
On view
Inscriptions
Archaeologist’s marks: “Y 28” in pencil and “XVIII” in black ink. Also, perhaps “1/…” in pencil.
Course History
History 10.02, Archival Research, Julia Rabig, Summer 2025
Anthropology 31.01, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 36.01, Gender in Cross Cultural Perspectives, Sabrina Billings, Fall 2025
Theater 15.01, Theatre & Society I, Samantha Lazar, Fall 2025
Classical Studies 12.01, Greek and Roman Engineering and Technology, Margaretha Kramer, Fall 2025
Humanities 1.01, Decadence, Rebecca Biron, Fall 2025
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 7, 2025 - Ongoing
Provenance
British School of Archaeology in Egypt (University College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.
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