Predynastic wavy-handled jar

Predynastic Wavy-Handled Jar. A predynastic wavy-handled jar in fired marl fabric. The body is of ovoid shape with a restricted short neck and everted rim; the base is flattened. Wavy handles are present on both shoulders as is usual for the type. This vessel type is a key piece in Petrie’s chronology of vessel development. H 18,5 cm. Provenance: Reputedly excavated in the 1940s at Abydos. Cracked and worn with small rim sherd missing. Nagada II, ca 3500 BC. (M1577). Acquired from a US collection in 2008. Sales Description stated: “Released from Muhlenberg Anthropological Museum in 1999. Abydos. Excavated in mid-1940s”. Seller wrote: “Museum has been closed for over a decade, and was a small repository of artifacts donated to a small liberal arts college in PA. There is little documentation, and what is known about the pieces was contained in the auction description.” It should be noted that many of the objects had originally been acquired from the EES. This lot is part of a large priv