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Small black polished squat bag-shaped jar

Nubian
Classic Kerma
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, Possibly Cemetery S, "Room H redim" (i.e. debris/backfill)

Medium/Technique Pottery
Dimensions Overall: 6.2 x 4 cm (2 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number20.3709
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

DescriptionThis squat blackware jar has a nearly flat base and a very slight concave neck. The rim has broken off. The exterior surface is black polished, though much of the treatment has worn away. The jar contains two vaguely cylindrically shaped fragments of clay/stone. They may be fragments of a figurine of some kind, though this possibility is highly speculative.
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, Possibly Cemetery S, from "Room H redim" (i.e. debris/backfill. Excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.

(Accession date: July 24, 2006)