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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Bowl

Place FoundTell es Sawwan, Iraq, Asia

PeriodUbaid Period

Date5500-4000 BCE

MediumStone

Credit LineGift of Elizabeth Hirsch

Dimensions1 1/4 x 1 5/8 in. (3.2 x 4.1 cm)

Object number1987.006.002

Label TextFinely crafted alabaster and other stone vessels were common offerings for the dead.
Exhibition HistoryRecent Acquisitions, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, July 14 - September 15, 1988
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 6, 2001 - 2004

ProvenanceEx coll. Elizabeth Hirsch, United States.

Status

Not on view

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