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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Squat Jar with Lug Handles

4000–3000 BCE

Egypt, Predynastic

(5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIb (3650–3300 BCE)
marl clay
Diameter: 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.); Overall: 15.2 cm (6 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1988
Location: Not on view
  • Purchased from Moham-med Mohasseb, Luxor, through Howard Carter
  • Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 3 (1988). p. 85 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; Mentioned: p. 108
  • Exhibition of the Month: Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3-December 28, 1952).
  • {{cite web|title=Squat Jar with Lug Handles|url=false|author=|year=4000–3000 BCE|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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