Jar

Museum number:
5-13645
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
7a (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3418
Description:
Jar; bulbous terracotta jar with two strap handles between neck and body. Height ca. 36 cm
Donor:
Paul Schuster Taylor
Collection place:
Cairo, Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Egypt, probably between Alexandria & Cairo–from oasis to west of Nile
Collector:
Dorothea Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor
Collection date:
1963
Materials:
Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Function:
1.5 Household
Context of use:
Water jar
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 5-13645, described as Jar; bulbous terracotta jar with two strap handles between neck and body. Height ca. 36 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 5-13645, described as Jar; bulbous terracotta jar with two strap handles between neck and body. Height ca. 36 cm

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