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Wavy Handled Jar

Wavy Handled Jar

Place of OriginLower Egypt
DatePredynastic Period (4500-3100 BCE)
Dimensions9 1/2 × 5 3/4 in. (24.1 × 14.6 cm)
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Fund
Object number
1915.75
Not on View
Published ReferencesLuckner, Kurt T., "The Art of Egypt, Part 1," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1971, p. 6, repr. fig. 5.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Raphael, Max, Prehistoric Pottery and Civilization in Egypt, New York, Pantheon Books, The Bollingen Series VIII, 1947, pl. XI, no. 11.

cf. Hayes, William C., The Scepter of Egypt, New York, Harper and Bros. with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953, p. 22, fig. 13.

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