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Ovoid jar with cream-colored slip

Nubian
Classic Kerma
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, Cemetery S, Tumulus III, grave 308

Medium/Technique Pottery
Dimensions Overall: 15.9 x 5.6 cm (6 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number20.3599
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

ProvenanceFrom Kerma, Cemetery S, grave 308. 1914: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of the Sudan.

(Accession date: July 20, 2006)