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| Keywords: Egyptian - New Year's Flask - Walters 48419 - Mark Left.jpg This lentil-shaped New Year's flask has two small baboons that appear at either side of the neck atop a band of hieroglyphic inscriptions Such flasks may once have held a liquid used in a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new agricultural year which began in late summer when the Nile River began to flood ca 650 550 BC Late Period Egyptian faience with green and blue glazes cm 14 5 12 2 6 7 accession number 48 419 24801 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1922 place of origin Naucratis present-day Kom Gieif Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian pottery in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review New Year's Flasks | ||||
