Black-topped Pot, between 3800 and 3400 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 14 1/4 × 5 3/4 inches (36.2 × 14.6 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900

1990.54

Inscribed, scratched into surface: B119

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, Black-topped Pot, between 3800 and 3400 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900, 1990.54.