Jug

14th century

15.1 cm 21.4 cm

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American excavations in Fustat have uncovered many examples of these unglazed earthenware jugs. This one has two inscriptional bands in relief and an animal frieze on an arabesque ground. The middle section was made from a mold, and this suggests that these types of jugs were...

Artifact

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15763
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as excavated at Fostat, Egypt (?)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Culture
Islamic
Genre
jugs

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