id:			101374
accession number:	1920.1987
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1987
updated:		2022-09-12 09:05:18.295000

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
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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
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culture:	Egypt, middle Predynastic Period, Naqada IIb Period
technique:	marl clay pottery
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Predynastic
type:		Vessels
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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.)
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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
	<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

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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 &amp; p. 85.

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from Moham-med Mohasseb, Luxor, through Howard Carter
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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	inkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 3 (1988).
	page number: 	p. 84
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160021

	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. 107, color p. 43 ; Mentioned: p. 107
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	Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 85, no. 1
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