Red Ware Jar, between 3300 and 3100 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 8 5/8 × 4 1/2 inches (21.9 × 11.4 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902

1990.120

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Inscribed, in pen and pencil, on side: G53

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

1902, gifted from the Egypt Exploration Fund

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

Egyptian, Red Ware Jar, between 3300 and 3100 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, 1990.120.