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Jar

National Museums Liverpool

National Museums Liverpool
United Kingdom

Large painted storage jar, bag-shaped body with a narrow neck and flaring rim. Decorated with blue and red on red slipped buff fabric that features bands of petals and a hatch pattern. Found in fragments and reconstructed in 2008. The jar was excavated during the1922 excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society in House P46.14 in the main city site of Tell el Amarna, described by the excavator as a “good middle class house of a fairly normal type with a courtyard".

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  • Title: Jar
  • Location Created: Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Tell el Amarna
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 1200 mm x 600 mm
  • Rights: Gift of the Trustees of the Wellcome Collection
  • Medium: Pottery
National Museums Liverpool

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