Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Source URL: https://staging.dia.org/art/collection/object/jar-43851
Jar, between 3400 and 3100 BCE
terracotta
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Maker Egyptian
Title
  • Jar
Date between 3400 and 3100 BCE
Medium Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 11 × 7 7/8 inches (27.9 × 20 cm)
Credit Line Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900
Accession Number 1990.100
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen, on side: B334
Provenance
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)