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Hes-Vase with Cover, ca. 1350-1295 B.C.E.. Faience, 8 1/16 x Diam. 2 3/16 in. (20.5 x 5.6 cm). Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.55a-b. Creative Commons-BY.
Ritual vessels known as hes-vases were commonly used in temple rituals of purification and in libations, or liquid offerings, which the priest poured to the gods. Their shape resembles the hieroglyph hes, which can mean “to favor” or “to praise.”