© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Lug-Handled Jar Decorated with Ships, Water, and Plants: One Ship with a Standard, Possibly of the Goddess Neith

AAT Object Form/Functionjars

AAT Object Techniquepainting (image-making)

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodPredynastic, Nagada II

Date3500-3350 BCE

MediumClay, pigment

Credit LineCollected by William A. Shelton, funded by John A. Manget

Dimensions8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (21 x 13.7 cm)

Object number1921.019

Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - February 1999
Africa's Egypt, Memphis Museum System, Memphis, Tennessee, February 20 - September 24, 1999
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, October 1999 - Spring 2001
Cultural Sensations: Africa, Coca-Cola Company Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, April 21 - June 20, 2003
Napoleon in Egypt, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, January 13 - March 26, 2006
Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 10 - December 11, 2011
Published ReferencesEmory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 8.

ProvenanceAcquired for Emory University Museum by William Shelton (1875-1959), ca. 1920.

Status

Not on view

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