Card/Transcription No.: 374

374. AN ARYBALLOS (SERPENTINE)

POSITION:
Thrown onto a mass of objects below threshold of doorway (left
hand side) of chamber (see photo 1136)

DIMENSIONS:
Max. H. 22.3, cents.

DESCRIPTION:
A vase of aryballos shape wrought in serpentine

REMARKS:
Contents robbed - very slight residue on bottom.
Lip badly broken - evidence of ancient repairs.
Parts of the pith and linen binding were round neck.
(It is interesting to note that this is the only specimen wrought
in serpentine - a class of stone so common in the earlier
Eighteenth Dynasty royal tombs).