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Wavy-Handled Jar

4000–3000 BCE

Egypt, Predynastic or later

(5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIa (3650–3300 BCE)
marl clay ware
Diameter: 10.9 cm (4 5/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.); Overall: 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1984
Location: Not on view
  • Purchased from Mohammed Mohasseb, Luxor, through Howard Carter
  • inkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 3 (1988). p. 83 www.jstor.org
    Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 113; Mentioned: p. 113-114
  • {{cite web|title=Wavy-Handled Jar|url=false|author=|year=4000–3000 BCE|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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