White cross-lined ware beaker with hippos
Unknown artist
Date: ca. 3650–3500 BCE
Medium: Pottery, paint
Dimensions: H: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); diam: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.)
Country: Egypt
Period: Predynastic, Naqada II
Themes: Hippos
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Date range
-3650 – -3650
Largest dimension
11.0 cm
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