Ovoid Pot, between 3300 and 3100 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 6 3/8 × 5 1/4 inches (16.2 × 13.3 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900

1990.138

Department

African Art

Inscribed, in pencil and pen, on side: B375

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, Ovoid Pot, between 3300 and 3100 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900, 1990.138.