Pottery Wine Jar
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Second half Dynasty 1 (3000-2900 BCE)
Nile silt, medium-fired
Overall: 26 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (68 × 22 cm)
Overall: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Overall: 3 15/16 × 26 11/16 in. (10 × 67.8 cm)
Overall: 26 3/4 × 26 11/16 × 8 11/16 in. (68 × 67.8 × 22 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
39.64.6673
Geography
Place Made: Tarkhan, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
8000-2000 BCE
Object Name
Vessel
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
This intact storage jar for wine has pot marks incised on the shoulder before firing which are believed to be an early form of writing.
Course History
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
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, England; sold to present collection, 1939.
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