WALL CASE A. Predynastic quadruple jar

Accession Number AN1896-1908.E.2909
Year 3800-3450 BCE
Dimensions 24.8 cm x 7.3 cm
Medium stone
Location Ashmolean Museum

Found at Hierakonpolis in Egypt. Although the printed catalogue describes it only as a ‘clay version’ of a stone cupped libation block from Hierakonpolis, its illustration alongside the stone block in The Palace of Minos points to this object.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 981, fig. 940

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 13