Pottery Storage Jar
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Middle Kingdom (2030-1650 BCE)
Marl clay with light wash
Overall: 7 5/16 × 9 in. (18.5 × 22.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
39.64.6644
Geography
Place Made: Qau el-Kebir 7497, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
2000-1000 BCE
Object Name
Vessel
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Archaeologist’s blue pencil, such as the British School used; CL read “49/34,” which is probably not correct as the BSAE was not excavating in 1949 and Reading would have gotten the pot before 1939. Must be 497 as evidenced below
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
British School of Archaeology in Egypt (Univeristy College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading (#497), England; sold to present collection, 1939.
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