The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sherd

Period:: Early Harappan
Date:: ca. early to mid-3rd millennium B.C.
Geography:: Indus Valley, Damb Sadaat
Culture:: Indus
Medium:: Ceramic
Dimensions:: 3.5 x 3.39 in. (8.89 x 8.61 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957
Accession Number:: 57.99.16

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

1950-51, excavated by the Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, New York; acquired by the Museum in 1957, through an exchange of objects with the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
References

Wilkinson, Charles K. 1958. "Ancient Near Eastern Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (2), Eighty-Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1957-1958 (Oct., 1958), pp. 40-41.
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Who
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What
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