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Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Storage Jar

Storage Jar

3100–2950 BCE
(5000–2950 BCE), Naqada III (3200–3000 BCE)
marl clay ware
Diameter: 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Overall: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1985
Location: not on view
  • Purchased from Mohammed Mohasseb, Luxor, through Howard Carter
  • Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 3 (1988). p. 90 www.jstor.org
    Berman, Lawrence Michael and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 552-553, cat. no. 497
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