id:			94098
accession number:	1914.648
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.648
updated:		2025-02-08 22:09:07.165000

Squat Jar with Lug Handles, 2950–2573 BCE. Egypt, Early Dynastic (2950–2647 BCE), Dynasties 1–3. Pegmatitic hornblende diorite; diameter: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.); diameter of mouth: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); diameter of mouth without rim: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.648

title:				Squat Jar with Lug Handles
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creation date:			2950–2573 BCE
creation date earliest:		-2950
creation date latest:		-2573
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Egypt, Early Dynastic (2950–2647 BCE), Dynasties 1–3
technique:	pegmatitic hornblende diorite
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Early Dynastic
type:		Vessels
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measurements: Diameter: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); Diameter of mouth without rim: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA 1916, no. 55, p. 210, pl. 339; CMA 1991', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased in Egypt by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
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CITATIONS

	Kozloff, Arielle P. “Egyptian Stone Vessels in Cleveland.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 327–339.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 330, fig. 6-7
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159955

	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. 83, color p. 43; Mentioned: p. 83
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