Cinerary Urn, between 1st and 2nd century CE

  • Egyptian

Glazed pottery

  • Overall: 9 × 10 × 9 1/2 inches (22.9 × 25.4 × 24.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

40.49

On View

  • Egyptian: Daily Reverences, Level 1, West

Department

African Art

estate of Howard Carter (London, England)

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Rhode Island, May 10, 1998-April 25, 1999, no. 171, (ill.) p. 162. [catalogue of the Howard Carter exhibition]. Peck, William H. “Archaeology and the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Bulletin of the DIA 79, no. 1/2 (2005): 9, (fig. 7).

Egyptian, Cinerary Urn, between 1st and 2nd century CE, glazed pottery. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 40.49.