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Object Number 07-40-50/72235
Display Title Jar with ear handles
Descriptions
Object Description Small jar with ear handles, decoratively painted with brown slip.
Inventory Description Ceramic, complete vessel, jar, egg-shaped, 2 ear handles, brown on buff
Classification
  • Jar
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Egypt
Additional Geographic Terms Ballas; Nagada
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 8.8 x 7.6 x 7.4 cm (3 7/16 x 3 x 2 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 72235 & A.E.S. & [209] & [3123]
Provenance
Collector Guikee
Collector J. Flinders-Petrie
Intermediary Sara Yorke Stevenson (1907)
Collector James Quibell
Donor Donated by American Exploration Society (1907)

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