3D MODEL
I created this 3D model using Cinema 4D and Adobe Illustrator. Photographs of the source artifact were used as reference.
ARTIFACT
Date: 14th century BCE | Material: Alabaster (calcite) | Location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo | International Inventory Number: 01/001/15080 | More Information: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15080
The fragrant (and narcotic) lotus plants growing along the Nile were beloved by the ancient Egyptians. In the graceful form of a large blue lotus flower framed between a pair of floating white lotus blossoms, this oil burning triple lamp was carved from a single piece of luminous alabaster. When found in the burial chamber, each of its three reservoirs still retained traces of oil. Mixed with salt to lessen the smoke, linseed and sesame oil with floating wicks of braided flax were burned for light. Utterly unique among the pharaoh’s stone vessels, the sophisticated, sinuous design of this delightful chalice belies its profound antiquity.
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