The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Jar

Jar

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Jar

Period:: Ubaid
Date:: mid 6th–5th millennium B.C.
Geography:: Mesopotamia, Eridu (modern Abu Shahrein)
Culture:: Ubaid
Medium:: Ceramic
Dimensions:: 6.37 in. (16.18 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1949
Accession Number:: 49.133.12

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

1947-48, excavated by Sayyid Fuad Safar, on behalf of the State Organization of Antiquities and Heritage, Baghdad; acquired by the Museum in 1949, through an exchange of objects with the Iraq Museum.
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Who
Ubaid (14)
What
Ceramics (29,320)

Vessels (21,921)

Jars (4,427)
Where
Asia (68,071)

Iraq (2,493)

Abu Shahrein (12)
When
8000-2000 B.C. (3,791)
In the Museum
Ancient Near Eastern Art (6,170)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Mesopotamia, 8000–2000 B.C.

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