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Jug is made of light blue paste with a firm and cutting. A tall, slender neck is raised from the oval body of the flooded bottom. A slender handle, cut out of the same piece of glass paste, stretches from the tip of the belly to the upper part of the neck. The opening hole of the door is flat, bulging and slit with pieces of orange-green glass paste. From the opening of the jug, the inside extends in a length of 2.5 cm, a cavity of 0.5 cm in diameter. The surface of the whole jug is rough.

Catalogue entry

Small jug
Museum Mimara, Zagreb
Glass Collection
Inv. no. ATM 1337
Egypt, unknown location
New Kingdom (1539-1069 B.C.)
18th dynasty (1539-1295 B.C.), reign of Amenhotepa II (1427-1400 B.C.)
glass paste
9.8 x 4.3 cm
diameter of rim: 0.5 cm

Resources

  • Lukšić, Tugomir. (ur.). Katalog Muzeja Mimara. Zagreb, 1987. 270, 443.
  • Ratković Bukovčan, Lada. „The Ancient Egyptian glass collection in the Mimara Museum“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 75-84. 76-77, fig. 84.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. „The Egyptian antiquities in Croatia“. PalArch 2, 1 (2005): 1-33. 13.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Egipat u Hrvatskoj: egipatske starine u hrvatskoj znanosti i kulturi. Zagreb, 2003. 68, fn. 416, fig. 67.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Model računalne obrade i prezentacije staroegipatskih predmeta u muzejskim zbirkama u Hrvatskoj. [Doktorska disertacije, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu]. Zagreb, 2006. 18.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 67.

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