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Jar (chocolate-on-white ware)

JORDAN, Pella
Jar (chocolate-on-white ware)
 1575 BCE-1425 BCE

Medium
fired clay

Measurements
27.8 × 25.8 × 25.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the University of Sydney, Pella Project, 1996

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Pella, Jordan

Accession Number
1996.491

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Inverted piriform jar with ledge rim and short neck, small double strap handle at shoulder, short flaring foot-rim; decorated on white slip with bands at neck and mouth, five groups of radiating lines are at shoulder, terminating at a wavy line between borders at maximum diameter.

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