Jar
E8183
Location: On Display in the Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E8183 |
| Current Location | Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display - On Display |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G 566 |
| Date Made | 100-1 BCE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Ceramic | Paint |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Giraffe | Snake | Trees |
| Description | Jar decorated with a frieze of foraging giraffes and undulating snakes spitting ankh signs. |
| Height | 34 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 29.4 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
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