Bag-shaped Jar, between 3300 and 3100 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 5 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (13.3 × 8.9 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900

1990.133

Department

African Art

Inscribed, in pencil, on side: B23 Inscribed, in pen, on side: M

probably 1898-99, probably excavated from cemetery B (Abadiyeh, Egypt)

1900, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund

1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Egyptian, Bag-shaped Jar, between 3300 and 3100 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900, 1990.133.