id: 101374 accession number: 1920.1987 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1987 updated: Squat Jar with Lug Handles, c. 3400–3300 BC. Egypt, middle Predynastic Period, Naqada IIb Period. Marl clay pottery; diameter: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); diameter of mouth: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); overall: 14.5 x 23.2 cm (5 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1987 title: Squat Jar with Lug Handles title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 3400–3300 BC creation date earliest: -3400 creation date latest: -3300 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Egypt, middle Predynastic Period, Naqada IIb Period technique: marl clay pottery department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - Predynastic type: Vessels find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); Diameter of mouth: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Overall: 14.5 x 23.2 cm (5 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 1, p. 115, color repr. p. 18 & p. 85. --- PROVENANCE Purchased from Moham-med Mohasseb, Luxor, through Howard Carter date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Buff-colored pottery decorated in red paint is characteristic of the later Predynastic period. The spirals and wavy lines on this jar imitate the appearance of more costly vessels made of hard stones. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS inkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 3 (1988). page number: p. 84 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160021 Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Reproduced: p. 107, color p. 43 ; Mentioned: p. 107 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 85, no. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1987/1920.1987_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1987/1920.1987_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1987/1920.1987_full.tif