Orange And Brown Jar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: ROUND-BODIED CERAMIC VESSEL WITH NARROW BASE AND WIDE NECK. REDWARE WITH ORANGE, TAN AND BROWN PAINTED DECORATION IN FORM OF GEOMETRIC AND ANIMAL MOTIFS (FISH, CAMEL, TURTLES?). RIM AND BASE ARE HEAVILY CHIPPED AND PAINT HAS FLAKED OFF CONSIDERABLY IN SEVERAL AREAS.
label: Notes
content: Jar, clay, with polychrome designs. Painted images of a camel and a fish decorate it, in brown and red/orange on terra cotta. Undoubtedly Meroitic.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Meroitic
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553161-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 27 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 21 cm