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Storage Jar

701-900

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Storage Jar

701-900

Physical Qualities Stoneware with transparent glaze over white slip, 7 × 6 7/8 in. (17.8 × 17.5 cm.)
Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 1997.277
Utilitarian objects, like this jar, might have been included among other grave goods to provide symbolic nourishment for the soul residing within the tomb.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1997; Andrew Kahane, Ltd., New York; Hellner Collection, Stockholm

Inscribed: None.

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