Pottery Jar
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Pottery
Overall: 10 1/8 × 4 1/2 in. (25.7 × 11.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
39.64.6683
Geography
Place Made: Beni Hasan 688, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Object Name
Vessel
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Archaeologist’s label: [688] in heavy ink
Course History
Anthropology 50.05, Archaeology of Food, Jiajing Wang, Fall 2023
Provenance
University of Liverpool, Institute of Archaeology; Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.
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