Cosmetic jar

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The museum’s record describes an anhydrite jar with a narrow neck and a broad everted rim “which is chipped”, decorated in relief with a row of monkeys with long tails, and places it in “Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period”.

The record keeps to the museum’s own metadata on Zenodo: its title, date, accession number and description, each quoted from the filed record. It is a historical object, not a HombreOils product. 3D model: The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, CC BY 4.0.

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Cosmetic jar (The Hunt Museum, MG 008)

The Hunt Museum, MG 008, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a HombreOils product.

The museum’s record describes an anhydrite jar with a narrow neck and a broad everted rim “which is chipped”, decorated in relief with a row of monkeys with long tails, and places it in “Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period”. Cosmetic jar: anhydrite, 1st to 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period. The Hunt Museum, MG 008. The 3D model is the museum’s own scan, simplified for the web; the record states no size.

Size

scale not stated: the museum’s record gives no dimensions, so the model keeps the scan’s own units

Source

The Hunt Museum, MG 008; 3D model by The Hunt Museum (deposited on Zenodo)

Licence

CC BY 4.0 · credit: “Cosmetic jar” (MG 008), 3D model by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948624, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Modified (simplified and converted: the mesh reduced, its colour and surface baked to textures; not rescaled, as the record states no size) by HombreOils.

Model

20,000 triangles (simplified from 150,000)

The files GLB 756 KB

The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Title

Cosmetic jar

documented

Cosmetic jar

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum record’s title

confidence A

Date

1st to 2nd millennium BC

documented

1st to 2nd millennium BC

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum record’s date; the museum’s own wording

confidence A

Maker

not on record

not on record

the museum names no maker

Designer

not on record

not on record

the museum documents no designer

Place

Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period

documented

Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s description names the culture and period

confidence A

Material

anhydrite

documented

An anhydrite jar with a narrow neck and a broad everted rim which is chipped.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s description: an anhydrite jar

confidence A

Dimensions

not on record

not on record

not stated by the museum in any open record that could be read on 2026-10-01: the Zenodo metadata gives no size; the museum’s own collection pages could not be read (a browser check); no Europeana record of this object was found

Collection

The Hunt Museum

documented

The Hunt Museum

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the deposit’s data provider: the museum itself

confidence A

Accession

MG 008

documented

MG 008

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s accession number (dc:identifier)

confidence A

The museum’s description

“An anhydrite jar with a narrow neck and a broad everted rim which is chipped. The body of the jar is decorated in relief with a row of monkeys with long tails. Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period.”

documented

An anhydrite jar with a narrow neck and a broad everted rim which is chipped. The body of the jar is decorated in relief with a row of monkeys with long tails. Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s own description, word for word (its hedges kept)

confidence A

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.18948624

documented

10.5281/zenodo.18948624

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the DOI of the museum’s Zenodo deposit (an outward id)

confidence A

3D model

3D model by The Hunt Museum, CC BY 4.0

documented

https://zenodo.org/api/records/18948624/files/cosmetic_jar.glb/content

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

"Cosmetic jar" (MG 008), 3D model by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948624, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

confidence A

Deposit

the museum’s deposit on Zenodo

documented

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948624

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the deposit’s DOI link (the record of the object on Zenodo; the same link is the edm.xml’s ProvidedCHO)

confidence A

Connections

No filed source links this object to a fragrance, perfumer, historical event or material in the records; none is claimed.

Sources

1. HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick). 3D models with metadata, deposited on Zenodo, 2026-03-11: “Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos” (HCM 233), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18947964; “Attic white-ground lekythos” (HCM 228), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18949666; “Gold pomander” (MG 087), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18948074; “Cosmetic jar” (MG 008), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18948624. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948624 · read 2026-10-01 · CC BY 4.0

Our text and structure are CC BY 4.0; quoted source text stays under its owners’ terms.

this record as data: /data/bottle/anhydrite-cosmetic-jar-hunt.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A