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Jar

Place of OriginEgypt

DateEarly Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1 or 2, 3200-2780 BCE

Dimensions9 1/2 × 4 3/8 × 4 3/8 × 3 7/8 × 4 3/8 in. (24.1 × 11.1 × 11.1 × 9.8 × 11.1 cm)

MediumTravertine

ClassificationUtilitarian Objects

Credit LineGift of Caroline Ransom Williams

Object number

1943.52

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

Collections

Decorative Arts
Sculpture

Published References

Luckner, Kurt T., "The Art of Egypt, Part 1," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1971; p. 7, repr. fig. 6.

Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 30, repr. (col.).

Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.

Label TextThe Pharaohs’ unification of Egypt saw a deepening interest in burial and the expanded use of luxury goods in elite tombs. It also fostered the development of a distinctively symbolic form of royal art and the emergence of the sun as a primary divinity. The three stone containers displayed here demonstrate the masterful exploitation of stone that matured late in the prehistoric era, continued to develop under the earliest Pharaohs and their aristocratic associates, and became a hallmark of Egyptian culture. This object was donated to TMA by Caroline Ransom Williams, a pioneering American Egyptologist, Toledo native, and the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in Egyptology, whose scholarship and curatorial work helped shape the museum’s early collection of Egyptian antiquities.