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Black-Topped Red Ware Jar

Place of OriginUpper Egypt
DatePredynastic Period, 4000-3200 BCE
DimensionsH: 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); Diam: 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
MediumEarthenware, red slip, burnished
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of Caroline Ransom Williams
Object number
1927.144
Not on View
DescriptionTall Class-B jar with blackened rim, widest near the top, narrowing to a small, unstable base. The surface is deep brown-red with vertical pebble burnishing visible on the exterior. The interior and bottom remain unslipped. Rim is slightly chipped, with whitish film adhering in some areas​.
Label TextThis 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.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. 5, repr. fig. 1.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Raphael, Max, Prehistoric Pottery and Civilization in Egypt, New York, Pantheon Books, The Bollingen Series VIII, 1947, pl. IX, no. 3.
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