Maker Egyptian
Title
  • Jar
Date between 3500 and 3100 BCE
Medium Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 8 1/4 × 5 1/4 inches (21 × 13.3 cm)
Credit Line Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900
Accession Number 1990.143
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen, on side: B
Inscribed, in pencil, on side: S
probably 1898-99, probably excavated from a cemetery at (Hu, Egypt) or (Abadiyeh, Egypt);
1900, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund;
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)