id:			94084
accession number:	1914.639
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.639
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:06.156000

Decorated Jar with Boat Scenes, c. 3300–3100 BCE. Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIc–d (3650–3300 BCE). Marl clay pottery; diameter: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.); diameter of mouth: 15.2 cm (6 in.); overall: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.639

title:				Decorated Jar with Boat Scenes
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creation date:			c. 3300–3100 BCE
creation date earliest:		-3300
creation date latest:		-3100
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIc–d (3650–3300 BCE)
technique:	marl clay pottery
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Predynastic
type:		Vessels
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measurements: Diameter: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.); Diameter of mouth: 15.2 cm (6 in.); Overall: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Untitled Exhibition
	opening date:   1973-08-13T04:00:00
	<i>Untitled Exhibition</i>. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-November 9, 1973).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA 1916, no. 97, p. 214, pl. 341; CMA 1982, no. 4 (entry by Arielle P. Kozloff)', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Probably Upper Egypt. Purchased from Mohammed Mohasseb, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent, 14 May 1913
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Brewer, Douglas J. A<em>ncient Egypt: The Origins</em>. 2005. p. 20.
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	Wamberg, Jacob, and Gaye Kynoch. <em>Landscape As World Picture: Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images.</em> Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009. pp. 113.
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. <em>Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n5

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p 4, fig. 4
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	Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 3 (1988).
	page number: 	p. 88
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160021

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 2
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n18

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 109-110; Mentioned: p. 109-111
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