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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Ointment Jar
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Ointment Jar

Artist Unknown
CultureEgyptian
DatePredynastic - Early Dynastic Period (Dynasties 1-3), ca. 3100-2640 B.C.E.
MediumAlabaster
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number53.19.3
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 109
Label TextOintment Jar Predynastic Period—Early Dynastic Period (Dynasties 1—3), ca. 3100—2640 B.C.E. Alabaster Museum Purchase 53.19.3
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
Predynastic - Early Dynastic Period (Dynasties 1-3), ca. 3100-2640 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Middle Kingdom, ca. 2055-1650 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
Dynasty 12 (ca. 1985-1773 B.C.) or early Dynasty 18 (ca. 1550-1425 B.C.)
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
5th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
Late Period, 664-650 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Dynasty 18, ca.1570-1314 B.C.
Image captured from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey by Carey Howlett.
Unknown
ca. 1820-1840
Image captured from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey by Carey Howlett.  Sized and color-correc…
Unknown
1820-1840
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
Ptolemaic Period, 199 - 99 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Late Period, Dynasty 25-30, 730-343 B.C.E.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.
John Campbell Hutton
ca. 1960
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Late Period, Dynasty 26, 664-525 B.C.E.