Stone Jar
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
3rd Millennium BCE (3100-2100 BCE)
Travertine (calcium carbonnate)
Overall: 5 5/8 × 4 15/16 in. (14.3 × 12.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW
12.2.521
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
8000-2000 BCE
Object Name
Vessel
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on bottom, in graphite: Thebes
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
Collected by Mary Maynard Hitchcock (1834-1887) and Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), in Egypt (possibly from a dealer in Alexandria or Cairo), about 1867-68; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.
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