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Description: | Black topped pottery vessel, Predynastic, Naqada I-II (4000-3100BC). The Naqada Period is named after the type site in Upper Egypt, just north of Thebes. Top broken. Round base, thin wall. 17cm high. Rectangular shaped top. Black topped red ware is a fine red pottery with blackened rim. How such vessels were decorated has been much debated. (See Hendrickx, S., Friedman, R. and Loyens, F. 2000. Experimental Archaeology concerning Black-topped red war from Ancient Egypt and the Sudan. 'Cahiers de le Ceramique Egyptienne' 6, 171-185; Smythe, J. 2005 Monuments in Mud, 'Nekhen News' 17, 21-23). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | black topped red ware | Temporal: | 4000 B.C.-3100 B.C.
Predynastic, Naqada I - II | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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