Pottery Jar

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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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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