Pitcher Imitating Cypriot and Western Asiatic Jug
Description
Object Label: Pottery Manufacture Available materials, construction technique, and even social status all played a role in the manufacture of pottery. Most ancient Egyptian towns had at least one skilled potter who served the entire community. Palaces, estates, and temples employed dozens of craftsmen to fashion luxury and ritual wares. Potters used two principal materials: alluvial silt (soil deposited by the floodwaters of the Nile) and soft desert shale called marl. Silt contains iron oxides and fires red; marl, rich in calcium carbonate, fires to a buff color. To make both clays more workable, potters added straw, crushed stone, or pulverized pottery. Potters constructed vessels by hand or on a wheel. Hand building involved shaping the clay manually and with simple tools. To create vessels on a wheel, artisans rotated the clay rapidly on a low, flat turntable and let centrifugal force pull it into shape. Spiral marks, evident on several examples in this case, indicate wheel manufacture. Caption: Pitcher Imitating Cypriot and Western Asiatic Jug, ca. 1470–1400 B.C.E.. Clay, pigment, 7 1/16 x Diam. 4 15/16 in. (17.9 x 12.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.473. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ancient Egyptian ceramic jug with ornamental designs.
The artifact is a ceramic jug with a bulbous body and a single handle. It features decorative patterns with linear and geometric motifs typical of ancient Egyptian pottery. The style is simplistic yet functional, indicative of everyday use or possibly ceremonial purposes. The jug rests on a modern display stand, suggesting it is part of a museum collection.
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Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 07.447.473 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4219 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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