basket

An item at Louvre

Small round basket originally fitted with a lid and equipped with an internal bead to stop the fitting. Basketwork made of strands of split rushes or esparto grass, joined with rolled palm leaves. Slightly streamlined walls towards the bottom made of 11 sausages sewn by palm leaf loops. Upper edge (12th row) a little stronger than the rows of the walls. Fairly fine and neat workmanship.

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).

Louvre