TAA i.2.4.43

{Dec. 11, continued}

Wine Jars Continued

Whether wine stored in <porous pottery>[?] Jars such as these would have[?]<be of>

use after two or more years. The breakage that occurred was

probably the result of rough handling when moving the heavy alabaster

vessels that were stacked with them.

They are all of a uniform shape   .   .   .

having large clay seals covering their mouths & necks, which

were bound with rush and bear impressions from seals of the

following device: -

The hieratic docket written upon the shoulders of these wine-jars

give the following dates and descriptions: -