Vase (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

4000–3100 BC
Egyptian
Containers-Vessels
stone
Egypt
Overall: 7 1/8 × 5 7/8 in. (18.1 × 14.92 cm)
84.72
The finely carved lip and graceful form of this hard-stone vessel demonstrate the workmanship possible even as early as the fourth millennium BC. The durability of stone vessels made them popular for funerary use.
Pre-Dynastic Period
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund
“A Golden Legacy: Fifty Years of the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA): April 2- August 18, 2002.
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