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Clay jar

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Title/s	Clay jar
Category	vessel
Name	jar
Description	cylinder jar, with wavy handle and mesh decoration. marl clay, with painted criss-cross 'net' lines and relief wavy-line.
Production Notes	coil built
Field Collection	Nagada or Ballas Egypt
Dimensions	diameter 11.1 cm length 16.7 cm
Period	Nagada III & Predynastic period
Date	circa 3200 B.C.
Provenance	given: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Sir 1895 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Bourriau, J.D. (1981) Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest (1981) [comments: no.259]
Material/s	ceramic
Accession Number	E.86.1896 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 49476; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Clay jar