Decorated jar
Nubian
Meroitic Period
1st–3rd century A.D.
Findspot: Nubia (Egypt), Karanog, Tomb G 150
Dimensions
Height: 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.)
Accession Number
1991.1142
Medium or Technique
Pottery
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Large globular jar with a small neck and mouth (plain rim). Red burnished, and decorated below the neck with four frogs with long tongues which turn into ankhs at the ends. One small fragment missing from the body.
Provenance
From Karanog, tomb G 150. 1908: excavated by the E.B. Coxe Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania; assigned to the University of Pennsylvania in the division of finds by the Sudanese government; 1908-1991: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; 1991: received by the MFA through exchange with the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
(Accession date: March 25, 1992)
Credit Line
MFA-University of Pennsylvania Exchange