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Title: Vessel
Period: Early Dynastic II (?)
Date: ca. 2700–2600 BCE (?)
Geography: Mesopotamia, Diyala region
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 11 3/4 × 9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (29.8 × 24.4 × 24.4 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund and Gifts of Lucy W. Drexel, Theodore M. Davis, Helen Miller Gould, Albert Gallatin, Egypt Exploration Fund and Egyptian Research Account, by exchange, 1950
Object Number: 51.25.13
“Al-Hiba: Expedition into the Past.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 16, 1972–January 21, 1973.
“The Art of Sumer and Akkad: Mesopotamia and Iran in the Third Millennium B.C.” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 3, 1973–May 27, 1973.
“Before the Flood.” Fundación ‘La Caixa’, Barcelona, Madrid, November 29, 2012–June 30, 2013.
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