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Wavy-Lined Jar

4000–3000 BC

Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada III

(3200–3000 BCE)

Marl clay pottery

Diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Diameter of mouth: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); Overall: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1983

Location

107 Egyptian

Description

Tall slender jars decorated with a wavy line in relief occur toward the end of the Predynastic Period. The netlike motif imitates the kind of rope sling or cradle that was used to carry this type of jar without handles.

Provenance
Purchased from Mohammed Mohasseb, Luxor, through Howard Carter
Citations
Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 3 (1988). p. 83 www.jstor.org
Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 113; Mentioned: p. 113
Exhibition history

Exhibition of the Month: Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3-December 28, 1952).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.1983