Mycenaean. <em>Pilgrim Flask</em>, ca. 1425–1300 B.C.E. Clay, slip, 5 5/16 × Diam. 3 11/16 in. (13.5 × 9.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.43. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 16.43_PS11.jpg)

Mycenaean. Pilgrim Flask, ca. 1425–1300 B.C.E. Clay, slip, 5 5/16 × Diam. 3 11/16 in. (13.5 × 9.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.43. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 16.43_PS11.jpg)

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Pilgrim Flask

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

On View: Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

Archaeologists working at the Upper Egypt site of el-Amarna have discovered many vessels similar to this example, all dating to the last years of extensive contact between Egypt and the Aegean during the Eighteenth Dynasty.

CULTURES Mycenaean; Greek

MEDIUM Clay, slip

Place Made: Greece

DATES ca. 1425–1300 B.C.E.

PERIOD Mycenaean IIIA Period

DIMENSIONS 5 5/16 × Diam. 3 11/16 in. (13.5 × 9.3 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 16.43

CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Spherical pottery vase, buff body, with orange-red concentric circles. Cylindrical neck with to handles joining neck to body. Condition: Assembled from several pieces; portions of sides and all of the base missing.

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MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

CAPTION Mycenaean. Pilgrim Flask, ca. 1425–1300 B.C.E. Clay, slip, 5 5/16 × Diam. 3 11/16 in. (13.5 × 9.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.43. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 16.43_PS11.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 16.43_PS11.jpg., 2019

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