Jar

E8157

Location: On Display in the Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E8157
Current Location Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display - On Display
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G 712
Date Made 100-1 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Ceramic | Paint
Iconography wreath | swans | trees | bugs | tables of the sun
Description

Decoration on the jar consists of two wreaths at the top; below, swans, trees, bugs and "tables of the sun". Blue-black and white on a red ground.

Height 28.9 cm
Outside Diameter 29.7 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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