Storage jar decorated with mountain goats
Unknown artist
Date: ca. 4000–3600 BCE
Medium: Ceramic, paint
Dimensions: 21 5/8 × 19 1/2 in. (54.9 × 49.5 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Vessels
Period: Chalcolithic
Themes: Goats
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1959
Met highlightDate range
-4005 – -3595
Largest dimension
49.5 cm
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