Ancient Egyptian jar from Saqqara

A pottery jar, red ware with an ovaloid body, rounded base and a wide neck with a flaring pointed rim. The body is painted with a blue pattern. Under the neck it is blue with a black line around the base of the neck and a red then black line around the top of the blue. The bottom of the blue section is waved and there are thin black lines down the blue section. A black line is under the blue. Four thin lines link this to the blue section on the lower part of the body. It is painted to look like leaves with black outline. Under this between two black lines it is blue.

Ancient Egyptian jar from Saqqara

Object details

  • Reference: BOLMG:1972.31.A
  • Material: pottery
  • Object name: jar
  • Dimensions: Length: 275mm , Width: 186mm , Depth: 186mm
  • Site: Saqqara
  • Latitude: 29.871111
  • Longitude: 31.216389