Jar

Vase of polished creamy yellow indurated limestone with red and grey streaks (meta-andesite porphyry?). Pierced lugs and projecting rim. Compare shape with Ali el-Khouli, ‘Egyptian Stone Vessels, Predynastic Period to Dynasty III: Typology and Analysis’ (Mainz, 1978) nos. 1343-1384. Danson Catalogue 2 no. 191. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Incomplete, large area of rim missing, chipped, surface dirt.