Jar with Plant Motif and Birds | Yale University Art Gallery

3500–3300 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, African Art

Medium: Clay with red pigment; hand made with pierced lug handles.
Dimensions: 22.23 × 16.19 × 10.16 cm (8 3/4 × 6 3/8 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: 1937.158
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Naqada II (Early Gerzean Period)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Maurice Nahman, Cairo, 1920.

Bibliography

Stephen P. Harvey, Gifts to Osiris, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987), 17, checklist no. 59.

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 34, no. 12, ill.

Divine, Domestic, and Desert Animals in Ancient Egyptian Art, exh. cat. (Greenwich, Conn.: Friends of the Greenwich Library, 1979), 9, 17, no. 1, fig. 1.

Miguel de Bragança, Ancient Egypt: God, King, and Man, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1978), 8, 22, fig. 1B.

Whitney M. Davis, "The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art," Journal of the American Oriental Society 96, no. 3 (1976).

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Object/Work type

jars

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