Unguent Flask - Lenticular
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Mar 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Annie-May Hegeman
notes: label: Notes
content: New Year's Flask in form of Pilgrim's flask. Translation: "Neith! May she give life and health to its possessor. Mistress! A good opening of the year for its possessor."
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: New Year's flask, c. 600 B.C. Filled with Nile water, flasks like this were traditional New Year's gifts in July when the river's floods began. For a people who saw death as a phase leading to new life, nature offered many powerful examples of rebirth - one of them the cycle of the seasons.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 147093
label: USNM Number
content: A378436-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flask