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Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Alabastron

664–525 BCE

Egypt, Late period , Dynasty 26 or later

(715–332 BCE)
travertine
Diameter: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); Diameter of mouth: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.623
Location: Not on view
  • Purchased in Egypt by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
  • Kozloff, Arielle P. “Egyptian Stone Vessels in Cleveland.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 327–339. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 336-337, figs. 32-33 www.jstor.org
    Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 486
  • Untitled Exhibition. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-November 9, 1973).
    CMA 1916, no. 51, p. 210, pl. 339
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