PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA II, CIRCA 3500-3200 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BLACK SCHIST JAR
PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA II, CIRCA 3500-3200 B.C.
The biconical body with wide flat disk rim, with two horizontal slightly concave lug handles, on rounded base
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Rudolf Schmidt (1900-1970) collection, Solothurn, thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

For similar with concave handles cf. Squat vase of grey patchy limestone, from Naqada Cemetery T Tomb 2, The Petrie Museum, London, acc. no. UC6215, and A. El-Khouli, Egyptian Stone Vessels, Predynastic Period to Dynasty III, Mainz am Rhein, 1978, no.1546.

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