Black-topped Pot, between 3800 and 3200 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 7 × 5 1/2 inches (17.8 × 14 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900

1990.60

Inscribed, in pen, on side: B343

probably 1898-99, probably excavated from cemetry 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 3200 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900, 1990.60.