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Ovoid squat jar with lug handles and painted spirals

Ovoid squat jar with lug handles and painted spirals

3650–3300 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsEgypt
FindspotEgypt
Medium/TechniqueCeramic (marl clay)
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 16.8 x 23.5 cm (6 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number11.318
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceFrom Mesaid (Mesa'eed) tomb 58, no. 3 [M/58/3]. 1910: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; March 2, 1911: assigned to the MFA by the government of Egypt.
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