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Storage Jar with Loop Handles

Storage Jar with Loop Handles

200s–300s CE
(42–562 CE)
earthenware with impressed and incised designs
Diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.); Overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1989.475
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This large jar may have used to store harvested grains and seeds.

Description

The function of this type of large jar remains unknown, yet it is highly likely that it was used to store harvested grains and seeds. The loops on its round shoulder suggest that the jar once had a lid fastened by cords, to strengthen its seal. Below its short neck, the vessel’s entire body is decorated with rows of short vertical and diagonal lines probably created by grooving and impressing the clay.
  • 1981-1990
    (Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    January 29, 1990-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.475