Currently not on view
White cross-lined jar
Egyptian
Predynastic Period, Amratian (SD 30-39), ca. 5400–3100 BCE
y1930-490
Information
Title
White cross-lined jar
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
h. 11.0 cm, diam. 13.0 cm (4 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William C. Hayes, Class of 1924
Object Number
y1930-490
Culture
Period
Said to be from Gebelein (Naga el-Gherira), Egypt; acquired by William C. Hayes, Class of 1924, possibly during the Metropolitan Museum of Art excavations at Thebes (Hayes active 1927-1931); given to the Musum in 1930 by Hayes.
- Jean Capart, Primitive art in Egypt, (Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Co.; London, H. Grevel & Co., 1905). , p. 108ff
- Theodor Schreiber, et. al., Expedition Ernst Sieglin: Ausgrabungen in Alexandria unter Leitung von Theodor Schreiber und unter Mitwirkung von Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherrn von Bissing, Giuseppe Botti..., (Leipzig, Germany: Giesecke & Devrient, 1908-)., vol. 2, pt. 3, pl. 265, no. 8; pl. 59
- William Christopher Hayes, The scepter of Egypt: a background for the study of the Egyptian antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953-1959)., p. 23, fig. 14
- Helene J Kantor, "Prehistoric Egyptian pottery in the Art Museum," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University XII, no. 2 (1953): p. 67-83 , fig. c, p. 67 (illus.)
- New Jersey's place in cultural history, 16,000 B.C.-A.D. 1625: a comparative exhibition, (Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1957)., p. 27
