Lentoid Bottle ('New Year's Bottle') inscribed for the God's Father Amenhotep, son of the God's Father Iufaa, Late Period, 664–525 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, H. 21 cm (8 1/4 in); diam. 18 cm (7 1/16 in), This lentoid flask, inscribed for a priest named Amenhotep, is an example of a New Year's bottle. Filled perhaps with perfume, oil, or water from the Nile, it would have been a gift associated with the celebration of the beginning of the year
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