Currently not on view
Jar with four lug handles (kandila),
ca. 3000–2800 BCE
Aegean
Early Cycladic I, 3500 - 1100 BCE
2008-54
Information
Title
Jar with four lug handles (kandila)
Dates
ca. 3000–2800 BCE
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
h. 22.6 cm, diam. 23.5 cm, diam. rim 11.2 cm (8 7/8 x 9 1/4 x 4 7/16 in.)
base: h. 4.4 cm, diam. 7.5 cm (1 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ali and Hicham Aboutaam
Object Number
2008-54
Culture
Period
Materials
Sold by Münzen und Medaillen, A.G. (Basel) in 1969, from an unknown private collection; purchased by Riki Watanabe in 1969; in the private collection of Watanabe until 2007; purchased by Ali and Hicham Aboutaam in 2007 from Sotheby's; given to the Museum by the Aboutaams in 2008.
- Kunstwerke der Antike: Antike geschnittene Steine, griechische Vasen, Bronzen, Terrakotten, Bildwerke in Stein: Samstag, den 13. Dezember 1969, (Basel: Münzen und Medaillen A.G., 1969)., no. 161
- Antiquities: egyptian, classical and western asiatic antiquities, Wednesday, December 5, 2007, (London: Sotheby's New York, 2007)., lot 46
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 68 (2009): p. 69-119., p. 103