id:			101374
accession number:	1920.1987
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1987
updated:		2023-12-06 14:31:53.611000

Squat Jar with Lug Handles, c. 3400–3300 BC. Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIb (3650–3300 BCE). 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, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIb (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: 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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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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	Donley, Gregory M., "Geometric Means", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-05/page/6

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