Third Intermediate-Late Period, 21st-27th Dynasty, 1069-404 BC. A travertine jar, the body tapering out to a flat base, wide offset rim and twin vestigial lug handles. For a similar 27th Dynasty Egyptian jar cf. jar with the name of Xerxes the Great, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 14.2.8.1.1 kg, 10.1cm (4"). From a Hong Kong family collection since the early 1980s; previously in a Hong Kong collection since 1973; accompanied by a scholarly note TL5348 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz.