Image code: 21630

Vase with capride-shaped handle

The vase is globular in shape. The body is decorated with a motif of drops slightly overlapping each other to form columns resembling cords, on the side opposite the handle is a richly dressed male figure extending his arms in adoration towards a female deity wearing a tight-fitting dress and a headdress with perhaps a tuft of feathers, the left hand clasps the ankh sign while the right has a sceptre that ends in the shape of a papyrus flower on which a bird is resting, there are two hieroglyphics with auspicious phrases towards the cupbearer of King Atumentyneb. The neck of the vase bears a double band of naturalistic decorations; in the upper register there are real and imaginary animals divided by floral compositions reminiscent of the oriental tree of life, there is a winged griffin, another attacking a feline, next to it two gazelles are mating, in the other scenes there is a fight between various animals; in the register below there are scenes of hunting and fishing in the marsh, a man sails on a papyrus boat with an aedicule containing a bird in its nest, a basket and a creel, on the roof there is a lotus flower, a little further on a man emerges from a papyrus tree has grabbed a duck, other frightened birds take to the sky leaving their nests and eggs on the edge of a pond where there are fish, there is a fisherman with a pole to which fish are attached, a creel and a basket; a papyrus bush divides the scene from another, where there are men enclosing birds in a net; the loop is in the shape of a capride, in the nostrils there is a silver ring, on the forehead there is a hole indicating that there was a stone.

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