Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos
Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos

Monumental Near Eastern Ceramic Storage Jar Pithos

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Bronze Age or Iron Age (circa 2nd millennium BCE to 1st millennium BCE)

A wheel‑thrown in a buff clay with a thick cream slip over the exterior, the rounded everted rim forming a short neck above a broad ovoid body tapering to a pointed base. Three small, vertically pierced loop handles are set high on the shoulder to take suspension ropes or aid in lifting. Surfaces show patchy firing clouds in reddish‑brown and light greenish tones, with scattered earthen encrustation and worn slip consistent with long burial and ancient use. Reassembled from roughly six large fragments with associated minor fill and overpaint, the joins stable and unobtrusive; general surface wear, small chips and abrasions, all commensurate with age.

Deep jars of this imposing scale were employed throughout the Levant for long‑term storage and commercial transport of substantial quantities of wine or olive oil, often set into a plastered floor or ship’s hold with the pointed base embedded for stability.

For a closely related large ovoid storage vessel with cream slip and shoulder handles, see Tallay Ornan, A Man and His Land: Highlights from the Moshe Dayan Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1986

Height 34 in (86.4 cm), maximum diameter 27 in (68.6 cm); mounted on a modern ring base for display which adds 3 additional inches Ht.

Provenance: Ex Daryl G. Kulok, New York, acquired in the 2000s, presumably in Israel.


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