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Terracotta spouted jug with high handle and slip lid

Unknown Artist

The form of this plump jar with a lid that can slip back and forth on the handle is probably descended from a type of jug produced by the Hittites, who flourished in central Anatolia during the second millennium B.C.

Credit: Gift of The American Society for the Exploration of Sardis, 1914

6th century B.C.
Terracotta
17.6cm
14.30.22
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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