The alabastron bears inscriptions written in Akkadian, Elamite, Persian, and Egyptian, and names “Great King” Xerxes I, who ruled Persia in the fifth century B.C. It had been previously suggested that ...

Date: c. 570 B.C.E. Origin: Corinth (Greece) Description: Small ovoid jar with thick, wide horizontal mouth, narrow neck, and rounded bottom. Handle broken. Multi-color decoration covers much of ...

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Egyptian School A LARGE EGYPTIAN ALABASTER ALABASTRON, LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C. Alabaster Sculpture 17.24 in Provenance Estimate Subscribers only ...

CU Boulder acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these ...