multi-lobed cup carved in patinated alabaster
 Elegant fluted cut with a flat base, the thick wall at the base tapering to a lip composed of eight lobes.
 Near East: Egypt or Bactria, Achaemenid period, 1st millennium BC.
 Width 12.7 cm - height 3.8 cm.
 Good state of preservation - restoration
 Provenance: France, formerly in the collection of François Antonovitch, collector and antique dealer, graduate expert from the Ecole du Louvre in Egyptology.
 Item examined by Antoine Tarantino
 Internal reference: e555