Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Source URL: https://staging.dia.org/art/collection/object/wavy-handled-cylindrical-jar-43819
Wavy-handled Cylindrical Jar, between 3300 and 3100 BCE
terracotta
Download the image
Share
Close
  • share via email
  • share via facebook
  • share via twitter
Details
Maker Egyptian
Title
  • Wavy-handled Cylindrical Jar
Date between 3300 and 3100 BCE
Medium Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 9 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (24.8 × 12.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901
Accession Number 1990.90
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, on side, twice: R[?]123
Provenance
probably 1898-99, probably excavated from cemetery R (Hu, Egypt);
1900, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund;
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)