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Description: | This is a small oval shaped ceramic pot with a pointed bottom. It dates to the Predynastic period (about 5300-3000 BC). It was collected by the famous Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie (b.AD1853-d.1942) who excavated many Predynastic period sites. The main body of the pot is a deep red-brown and the top half is painted black. Black- topped red ware pots are characteristic of the later Predynastic period. There are vertical burnish marks on the surface. Pots like this example would have been placed in graves and may have been filled with food for the dead in the afterlife.
Material: ceramic | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.worldarchaeology.21583 | Go to resource |
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