Egyptian jar, slender with black rim

An image of Vessel. Jar, slender with black rim. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Height 0.214 m, diameter, rim, 0.101 m, width, body, 0.112 m, c. 4500-3500 B.C. Nagada II & Predynastic period.

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Vessel. Jar, slender with black rim. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Height 0.214 m, diameter, rim, 0.101 m, width, body, 0.112 m, c. 4500-3500 B.C. Nagada II & Predynastic period.

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Accession Number: E.GA.1499.1947
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/18.0
Focal length: 135
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 683 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 342.38kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 250
Fnumber: 18/1
Captured: 2018:07:18 16:36:13

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC clay Egyptian Fitz_ANT jar Nagada period pottery Predynastic Period slender vessel

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