Egypt Magic [1125]
Perfume Vase
As for this (a vase) of alabaster that carried the perfume of Tutankhamun, dating back more than 3,300 years.
This vase consists of four pieces of alabaster knit together.
The shapes on the vase symbolize the idea of ​​its significance: that the Nile supplies the king and queen, whose names are inscribed on the vase, with the perfume contained in this vase.
The two eagles, with the two crowns they carry for the goddess (death), represent that they carry out the process of protecting the perfume that the vase carries for King Tut.
The vase is surrounded by two deities with drooping breasts, each symbolizing the deity Habi, the Lord of the Nile. They are here in the crowns of the lotus flower and the papyrus, representing southern and northern Egypt, Upper and Lower Egypt, which indicates the king’s conservatism on the unity of Egypt.
This vase was found among 5000 other artefacts in the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 / It is now in the Great Museum in Cairo.
Quoted by Dokkil