Pottery Hes-jar (Water Jar)

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 11 (about 2000 BCE)

Nile clay

Overall: 7 × 3 in. (17.8 × 7.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

39.64.6681

Geography

Place Made: Beni Hasan 608, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

2000-1000 BCE

Object Name

Vessel

Research Area

Ancient Egypt

Africa

Not on view

Inscriptions

Archaeologist’s label: 608

Exhibition History

Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.

Provenance

Univeristy of Liverpool, Institute of Archaeology; Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.

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