Inscribed, inside of largest fragment, in white: QI 66A/385
Storage Jar, between 850 and 1000
- Coptic, Egyptian
Slip-painted ceramic
- Framed: Overall: 10 1/2 × 12 3/4 × 9 inches (26.7 × 32.4 × 22.9 cm)
Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society
F1988.62
Department
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
- Broken
- Geometric patterns
- Nubian
- Early christian
- Ceramic
- Jar
- Coptic
- Slip painting
- Nubia
Details
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Provenance
excavated from (Qasr Ibrim, Egypt); Egypt Exploration Fund; 1988-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Adams, William Y. "The Evolution of Christian Nubian Pottery," Kunst und Geschichte Nubiens in Christlicher Zeit, ed. Erich Dinkler. Recklinghausen, W. Germany, 1970, p. 118, pl. 62.
Rights Status
Coptic, Egyptian, Storage Jar, between 850 and 1000, slip-painted ceramic. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, F1988.62.
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