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Jar

Near Eastern
Early Bronze Age
2465–2323 B.C.
Object Place: Egypt; Findspot: Egypt, Giza

Medium/Technique Pottery
Dimensions Height x diameter: 52 x 38 cm (20 1/2 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number37.2724
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Description"Special ware" oil jar with two vertical handles and flat base; red ware; partly covered with thin coat of plaster; decorated with incised horizontal lines and impressed diagonal hatchings; foreign cylinder seal impression nearly vertically on shoulder. Repaired and partly restored in 1952.
Syrian import
ProvenanceFindspot Information: From Giza, G 2370 B / Exp.Ph. C 13649.