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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Spouted Ledge-Handled Teapot

Place ExcavatedJericho, Palestine, Asia

PeriodIntermediate Early Bronze Age - Middle Bronze Age

Date2300-2000 BCE

MediumClay

Credit LineJericho Excavations, 1952-1958

Dimensions5 15/16 x 15 3/8 in. (15.1 x 39 cm)

Object number1958.006

Label TextCalled a "teapot" because of its low body, wide neck, and single spout, this vessel shape appeared throughout the Levant during the period. Painted teapots originated in northern Syria and were imitated by potters at Jericho, who produced their local variant of the form.
Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 6, 2001 - February 12, 2018
Published ReferencesKathleen Kenyon, Excavations at Jericho II (London: British School of Archaeology, 1965), 136, figure 72.2.
Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 8.
Monique Seefried and Bonna Wescoat, Archaeology (May/June 1985): 63.

ProvenanceExcavated by Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978), Jericho, Palestine.

Status

Not on view

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