Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 143
123 EGYPTIAN A^ESSELS. this end. The arched handle not only points to the attachment of the vessel to a string in order that it be cast into the water^ but also to the carrying the vessel pendent from the hand in the manner that pails are at present carried, and the contracted mouth restrains the… … Fig. 111. Fig. 112. Fig. 113. from the Nile in the very manner that the vessel would indicate; but with the Greeks circumstances were different, and the shape of the vessel varies accordingly. The base is here flat, in order that the vessel may stand ; the mouth is large, in order to collect the…
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