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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel

Storage Jar

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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: Storage Jar, ca. 1539–1493 B.C.E.. Clay, pigment, 10 9/16 x Diam. 7 1/2 in. (26.8 x 19 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.449. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

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 Egyptian pottery vessel with decorative bands.

The vessel is an ancient Egyptian pottery artifact featuring several horizontal decorative bands around its neck and upper body. The bands include geometric patterns suggesting a stylized aesthetic. The pottery is well-preserved, showcasing the typical craftsmanship of ancient Egyptian ceramic work.

decorative unclear good
Materials pottery

Connections

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 07.447.449 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 4213 tier-2
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