An Egyptian Alabaster Model Libation (nemset) Jar, Old Kingdom, ca. 2775 – 2650 BCE Price - $1000 - $5000 EA 24879–80

EA 24879–80

Condition:   The bracelet is intact and in very good condition overall

and set with four deep red garnets

In mythological times a large group of women traveled from Marrapinti

A seal amulet

An Egyptian Alabaster Model Libation (nemset) Jar, Old Kingdom, ca. 2775 – 2650 BCE Price - $1000 - $5000 EA 24879–80Small model vessels, solid or with only token cavities, first appear in tombs during the early Old Kingdom. They were placed in the subterranean burial apartments to provide symbolic sustenance for the afterlife. Carved from a single piece of banded alabaster, this small model container is of a type known as a nemset jar, well attested as a libation vessel used in funerary and temple rituals for nearly three thousand years. The cylindrical form, with