Painted Jar

Ovoid shaped jar with pierced lugs, decorated with red painted lines. Diameter of the mouth is 50 mm. Predynastic Pottery Corpus D.8p. One of the previous owners, Amy Urlin, assisted W. M. F. Petrie on his excavation of the cemetery at Abydos in 1901, which may have been the source of this object. Compare shape with W. M. F. Petrie, ‘Prehistoric Egypt Corpus’ (London, 1921) D 8p. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Surface cracked, large areas of white residue, chipped, surface loss, surface dirt.