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ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Lug-Handled Vessel

AAT Object Form/Functionvessels (containers)

AAT Object Form/Functionjar

AAT Object Form/FunctionPreserving Jars

Place FoundEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodPredynastic, Nagada II

Date3500-3350 BCE

MediumCeramic, pigment

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

Dimensions6 1/4 x 8 7/8 x 9 in. (15.9 x 22.5 x 22.9 cm)

Object number1921.018

Label TextIn the Naqada II, or Gerzean, Period vessels were sometimes decorated with designs in red paint either imitating stone vessels or depicting ritualistic funerary scenes in which a boat brings the deceased for burial.
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, September 2001 - Present
Published ReferencesEmory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections, Atlanta, Georgia, February 15 - April 4, 1982 (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 8.
Jennifer Ritchey, "Eye on Antiquity," Where Atlanta (November 2001): 21.

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

Status

On view

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