An Egyptian Alabaster Model Libation (nemset) Jar, Old Kingdom, ca. 2775 – 2650 BCE Price - $1000 - $5000 Condition: Minor chips around the

Condition: Minor chips around the foot

These influences transformed the figures at the enormous complex of Buddhist cave temples at North XiangtangShan from the linear abstraction of the Northern Wei style to a more rounded

EA 24879–80

A seal amulet

Dimensions: Length: 6 1/4 inches (15

An Egyptian Alabaster Model Libation (nemset) Jar, Old Kingdom, ca. 2775 – 2650 BCE Price - $1000 - $5000 Condition: Minor chips around theSmall 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