Mortuary Urn

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Artist Unknown

Culture Chinese

Title Mortuary Urn

Date 2nd millennium BCE

Medium Earthenware with colored slip or paint and clay

Dimensions Overall: 9 x 14 1/2 in. (22.9 x 36.8 cm)

Credit Line William Lowe Bryan Memorial, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 62.174

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This jar was probably found in the context of a burial and used for grain or other food to sustain the dead in the afterlife. It is made of coiled clay, decorated, and burnished to give it a luminous surface.

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"Mortuary Urn | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=62.174