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Description: | Wavy handled pottery vessel. Red fabric with chalk intrusions. Cracked. 11cm high. Excavation mark 'F42'. From Hierakonpolis 'fort' cemetery. This is one of the earlier types of Petrie's wavy handled sequence derived from Palestinine imports. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was the first to outline the chronology of these vessels following his excavations in the 1890s. In Petrie's sequence this type belongs to one of the true wavy-handled jars, before that transmuted into cylindrical jars. The Hierakonpolis fort is a large mud brick enclosure built during the 2nd Dynasty. Its function is not known. This vessel probably dates to the Naqada II Period (3500-3100 BC). The name 'Naqada' is taken from the type site in Upper Egypt, north of Thebes. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | wavy handled jar | Temporal: | 3500 B.C.-3100 B.C.
Predynastic, Naqada 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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