Wavy-handled jar with cross hatching design

Period:: Predynastic Period

Date:: ca. 3850–2960 B.C.

Geography:: From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abadiya, Cemetery R, Tomb R11A, EEF excavations 1898–99

Medium:: Pottery, paint

Credit Line:: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899

Accession Number:: 99.4.140

Not on view

Excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund at Abadiya. Received from the Egyptian government in the division of finds. Allotted to the Metropolitan Museum, 1899.

Hayes, William C. 1953. Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom. Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 21, fig. 13.

Timelines
Egypt, 8000-2000 B.C.

Department

Egyptian Art (27,126)

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

8000–2000 B.C. (3,743)

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