Wavy-Lined Jar (4000–3000 BCE): Art, History and Details

Wavy-Lined Jar (4000–3000 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Tall slender jars decorated with a wavy line in relief occur toward the end of the Predynastic Period. The netlike motif imitates the kind of rope sling or cradle that was used to carry this type of jar without handles.

Object facts

• Title: Wavy-Lined Jar
• Date: 4000–3000 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada III (3200–3000 BCE)
• Type: Vessels
• Technique: marl clay pottery
• Dimensions: Diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Diameter of mouth: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); Overall: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - Predynastic
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1920.1983

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 3 (1988).
• Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999

View the collection record

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