Double hes-vase
Brilliant blue-glazed faience amulet in the form of two ritual vases, in Egyptian named 'hes'. The single shape appears among funerary pottery of the predynastic, and remained in use for libations throughout dynastic Egyptian history.
ABYDOS
FAIENCE
NEW KINGDOM
Acquisition details are unknown. The object number may be from the small find register of an excavation, suggesting that this item was given by the Exploration Society from its work at Abydos in the mid-1920s.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND
Inventory number: 1800
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