Jar from ancient Egypt
storage jar imported from the Levant, with some of its original contents. The congealed matter in the jar would have been imported as oil. Imported storage vessels of the late fourth millennium BC at Abydos and elsewhere have revealed a substantial volume of trade between Western Asia and the Egyptian royal courts during the period of unification of Egypt into a single kingdom. This example is one of the first to have been discovered, in the 1899 excavations at Hierakonpolis, and it demonstrates the importance of that city as a centre of kingship participating in international trade.
Present location NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number 1899:383
Dating NAQADA II
Archaeological Site EL-KOM EL-AHMAR/HIERAKONPOLIS/NEKHEN
Category JAR
Material POTTERY
Technique FORMED BY HAND
Height 33 cm
Width 25 cm
Diameter 20 cm
Bibliography
Barbara Adams, Ancient Hierakonpolis Supplement, Warminster 1974, 103 (tomb 558).
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