Ovoid Jar, between 3500 and 3100 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 8 × 4 1/4 inches (20.3 × 10.8 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902

1990.181

Department

African Art

Inscribed, in pen, on side: G54

ca. 1902, probably excavated from cemetery G (Abydos, Egypt)

1902, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund

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

Egyptian, Ovoid Jar, between 3500 and 3100 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, 1990.181.