Upright-handled jar

Details

• Title

  Upright-handled jar

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq › Babil Governorate › Kish (Mound A, Grave 3, 842) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Early Dynastic Period III (c. 2600 - 2350 BC)

• Material and technique

  pottery, hand-modelled and with cream slip

• Object type

  container › vessel › jar

• Dimensions

  14.7 cm (height)
  10.7 cm (diameter)
  handle 4.6 x 2 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1924.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1924.209

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