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Squat Jar with Lug Handles
The collection record classifies this work as vessels. It is dated 2950–2573 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Egypt, Early Dynastic (2950–2647 BCE), Dynasties 1–3.
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- Museum title
- Squat Jar with Lug Handles
- Date
- 2950–2573 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Egypt, Early Dynastic (2950–2647 BCE), Dynasties 1–3
- Materials and technique
- pegmatitic hornblende diorite
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); Diameter of mouth without rim: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1914.648
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
A single tomb might contain hundreds of stone vessels replicating the shapes of pottery vessels used in everyday life. The most popular material for stone vessels was white or banded travertine (Egyptian alabaster), found close to the Nile, but prospectors and quarrymen often traveled far in search of the desired materials. The hard stone hornblende diorite, notable for its mottled texture, was quarried in the desert along the route to the Red Sea.
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