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Description: | Black incised pottery bowl, with flat base and moulded rim.
Type of Vessel: Bowl
Materials: Nile silt B
Technique: Hand made. Completely black maybe due to the effect of the firing. High burnished. Incised decoration.
Description: Open bowl (as N 30). N-ware (Nubian ware, black incised). Slope body. Modelled rim (B 7). Slightly concave base. Decorated.
Decoration: Bowl with the typical Nubian decoration. Incised decoration filled with a white coat. Decoration outside the bowl, around the rim and on the base. Around the rim there are series of chevrons. On the base two triangles filled with chevrons. Around the body six semi-triangular shaped bands filled with chevrons.
Origin: Probably Naqada (tomb 416).
Further Observations: the 416 number is written inside the bowl. Haworth, Mr Jesse (Donation 1895).
Comparitions: This bowl is very similar to:
- Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung 13089. Coming from Naqada (1895). Gift of Martin Kennard. Without tomb number. Scharff, Die Altertümer der Vor- und Frühzeit Ägyptens,1931, p. 127, nº 275, Tafel 11.
- Ashmolean Museum 1895.500. Coming from Naqada 576 (Payne, J. C. Catalogue of the Predynastic Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1993, p. 130, nº 1085)
Technique: incised, Material: Pottery
Prior to Cleaning | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.99519 | Go to resource |
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