Stone vessel – zoomorphic, frog STO-0012

By Glenister, Jacob

Archaeological site unknown

Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 910.100.3.

Date : Naqada IID

Based on comparable examples.

Material : Serpentine

Preservation : Almost complete

Decoration preservation : Partly lost

Preservation information :
Minor damages to the rim.

Description

Seated frog-shaped vessel made of black-and-yellow mottled-patterned stone. The rim has no lip and rests flat on the body. The lug handles are at the same level as the eyes and placed horizontal.y. Th head is raised, with a clearly defined neck; the back comes to something of a point and slopes significantly downward.

Decoration

The eyes were not originally inlaid and the eyebrow ridges are clearly defined. The legs are carved; the back legs protrude some distance in a squat position while the front legs are ill-defined and only clearly visible in the lowest part of the vessel, where they protrude slightly forward.

Courtesy of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Toronto, Canada. © ROM.

Courtesy of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Toronto, Canada. © ROM.

Courtesy of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Toronto, Canada. © ROM.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

3.5

Width :

Length :

7.6

Additional information

Form :

Closed

Shape of base:

flat base

Decoration location :

Outside

Acknowledgements

We thank the Royal Ontario Museum for permission to include images of this artefact.

References

Hoffman , M. A. ; Stanton , E. B. ; Willoughby , K. L.

1988

The first Egyptians: an exhibition organized by McKissick Museum and the Earth Sciences and Ressources Institute of the University of South Carolina. Columbia SC

, 25, 71, cat. no. 37.

Hendrickx , S. ; Förster , F.

2024

The vase Bally: captives on a Late Predynastic decorated stone vessel. A study of the 'bound prisoner' and related motifs in Early Egypt. Egyptian Artefacts I. Leuven

, 148, cat. A53.