Lahun / jar / Calcite
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1892
- Object Name
- jar
- Lot
- Petrie, Flinders
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Stone Vessels
- Materials
- Calcite
- Length
- ;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- 13.25;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;1351 g
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Alabaster jar with concave sides, thick lip. Hollowed almost throughout. Yellow-cream color with many vertical gray grains. Very cracked, as if stone is shattering.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 3100-2900 BC
- Unit Grid Number
- Tomb 705
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Lahun
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 16 - Pre-Dynastic Egypt
- Exhibition Curator
- Richards, Janet
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Type Category
- Ceramic
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.1892
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1892/dscn1860.jpg
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"Lahun; jar; Calcite." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1892/dscn1860.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
