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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Decorated Jar with Rope Pattern

4000–3000 BCE

Egypt, Predynastic

(5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IId (3650–3300 BCE)
marl clay
Diameter: 29.4 cm (11 9/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); Overall: 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1986
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. 87 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. 108-109; Mentioned: p. 108-109
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