New Year's Flask

Description 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.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/21/1998	Examination	survey

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922