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Jar

Period Early Dynastic Period (Ancient Egyptian, 3100–2649 BCE)

Dynasty Dynasty 3 (Ancient Egyptian, 2649–2575 BCE)

Place of OriginEgypt

Date2700-2500 BCE

Dimensions7 3/8 × 3 7/8 × 3 1/8 × 6 5/8 in. (18.7 × 9.8 × 7.9 × 16.8 cm)

Mediumporphyritic andesite with plagioclase inclusions

ClassificationUtilitarian Objects

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

Object number

1993.48

On View

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

Collections

Decorative Arts
Sculpture

Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 60, repr. (col.).

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. 31, repr. (col.) p. 10, 31.

Exhibition HistoryToleod, Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, 2010-2012.Comparative ReferencesSee also Moragn J. de., Recherches sur l'origine de l'Egypt, Paris, 1896-1897, p. 166.

See also Hayes, W., Sceptre of Egypt I, New York, 1959, pp. 9-27 and p. 23, fig. 15.

See also Woldering, I, The Art of Egypt, New York, 1965, p. 29, pl. 3.

See also Kantor, H., "Agypten," in Frühe Stufen der Kunst, Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, 13, 1974, pp. 227-256.

See also Spencer, A.J., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum V: Early Dynastic Objects, London, 1980, p. 32, no. 159 (BM inv. no. 4T31) and pl. 16, no. 159.

See also Schultz, F., Egyptian Art - The Essential Object, New York, Acanthus Gallery, May 28 - June 25, 1987, no. 2.

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.