Maker Egyptian
Title
  • Black-topped Pot
Date between 3800 and 3400 BCE
Medium Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 8 5/8 × 3 7/8 inches (21.9 × 9.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900
Accession Number 1990.56
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen, on side: B162
Inscribed, in pencil (below pen marking), on side: B162
probably 1898-99, probably excavated from cemetery B (Abadiyeh, Egypt);
1900, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund;
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)