Brown Alabaster Jar | Yale University Art Gallery

3500–3100 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, African Art

Medium: Alabaster
Dimensions: 5 13/16 × 7 1/2 × 4 7/16 in. (14.8 × 19 × 11.2 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift\r\nex. Coll.: Nicholas Tano, Cairo, Jan-Feb 1920
Accession Number: 1937.156
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Naqada II-III (Gerzean Period)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Nicholas Tano, Cairo, 1920

Bibliography

Stephen P. Harvey, Gifts to Osiris, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987), 18, checklist no. 60, ill

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 30, no. 8A, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

jars

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