Mortar and Pestle

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12 (about 1985–1773 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: On View, Gallery 50
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Mortar and Pestle
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 1985 BCE–1773 BCE
Medium: Mortar: baked steatite; pestle: granite
Dimensions: a (mortar): 1.8 × 13.6 × 7.2 cm (.74 × 5.375 × 2.87 in) b (pestle): 3 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm (1.21 × 1 × 1 in)
Credit Line: Gift of Henry H. Getty, Norman W. Harris, and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1894.668a-b
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 98.

Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Reverend Chauncey Murch (1859-1907), Luxor, Egypt; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris, 1894.

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