Black-topped Red Ware Jar

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Black-topped Red Ware Jar

Place of OriginEgypt

DatePredynastic Period, 3400-3200 BCE

DimensionsH 13 1/2 × Diam. body 7 11/16 × Diam. rim 5 × Diam. base 2 7/8 in. (34.3 × 19.5 × 12.7 × 7.3 cm)

MediumHand-built earthenware, burnished, with carbonized rim.

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey, Florence Scott Libbey, and the Egypt Exploration Society, by exchange

Object number

1993.61

On View

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

Label TextFor almost a thousand years jars such as this were used in the earliest Egyptian dwellings and as offerings in burials. Their cone-shaped bottoms were developed so that they could be wedged into the sand to hold the jars upright.Published ReferencesRaphael, M., Prehistoric Pottery and Civilization in Egypt, Washington, D.C., 1947, p. 67- 74 and pl. x.

Hayes, W., The Scepter of Egypt, Part I, New York, 1953, p. 16 - 17, and p. 16, fig. 7.

Smith, W.S., Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1960, p. 19 - 20.

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. 29, repr. (col.) p.29.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, 2010-2012.Comparative ReferencesSee also Hayes, W., The Scepter of Egypt, Part I, New York, 1953, pp. 16-17, fig. 7.

cf. Raphael, M., Prehistoric Pottery and Civilization in Egypt, Washington, D.C., 1947, pp. 67-74, pl. x.

cf. Smith, W.S., Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1960, pp. 19-20.