Fragment From Decorated Bowl ca. 1279–1213 New Kingdom, Ramesside The cup is richly inlaid with copper, silver, and gold, with elaborate decoration: An elaborate lotus fills the center; in the outer register a series of pendant lotuses and cornflowers encircles composite plants, caprids, a leaping bovine, desert animals, and a pair of female sphinxes with wild hair; and the inner frieze is a swamp scene with flying ducks, a mongoose, and a man ferrying what might be a standing cow. The owner of this decorated vessel most probably served in the cult of a goddess during the Ramesside period
Fragment From Decorated Bowl ca. 1279–1213 New Kingdom, Ramesside The cup is richly inlaid with copper, silver, and gold, with elaborate decoration: An elaborate lotus fills the center; in the outer register a series of pendant lotuses and cornflowers encircles composite plants, caprids, a leaping bovine, desert animals, and a pair of female sphinxes with wild hair; and the inner frieze is a swamp scene with flying ducks, a mongoose, and a man ferrying what might be a standing cow. The owner of this decorated vessel most probably served in the cult of a goddess during the Ramesside period. His name—Sakawahikhana, which suggests foreign connections—in inscribed on a fragmentary bowl () which is assumed to have come from the same find. The shape of this cup and of the other vessels from this find as well as their decoration indicate that they belonged to a wine service, like the jugs, jars, bottles, and situlae from Tell Basta (see for example and .20).. Fragment From Decorated Bowl. ca. 1279–1213 Black bronze with gold, silver, and copper inlays. New Kingdom, Ramesside. From Egypt
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