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MM 18863 :: pottery vessel, decorated, pottery vessel

Object description: One extant part of a necked, double jar. It has an ovoid body, tapering to a narrow flat base and one tubular string-hole handle. Drab surface, with an exterior decoration in maroon. It features two large spiral motifs on either side. Additionally, ten horizontal wavy lines adorn the vessel from the rim down and over the handles. Below this, are five vertical wavy lines. There is also a spiral, which originate on the bottom and extends up and around the lower most part of the vessel. Above this, on one side, are three horizontal wavy lines, which fill the space vacant before the large spiral on the body appears. Finally, parallel, on either sides of the break, are multi linear, vertical wavy lines.

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Inventory number

MM 18863

Serie nummer

5490

Object

pottery vessel, decorated; pottery vessel

Object, Swedish

kärl; keramikkärl, dekorerat

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Lera; Keramik

Description

One extant part of a necked, double jar. It has an ovoid body, tapering to a narrow flat base and one tubular string-hole handle. Drab surface, with an exterior decoration in maroon. It features two large spiral motifs on either side. Additionally, ten horizontal wavy lines adorn the vessel from the rim down and over the handles. Below this, are five vertical wavy lines. There is also a spiral, which originate on the bottom and extends up and around the lower most part of the vessel. Above this, on one side, are three horizontal wavy lines, which fill the space vacant before the large spiral on the body appears. Finally, parallel, on either sides of the break, are multi linear, vertical wavy lines.

Period

Naqada II (3500-3150 BC), Predynastic Period

Period, Swedish

Naqada II (3500-3150 f Kr), Fördynastisk tid

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

-3500

Time - Manufacturing, latest

-3150

Exhibitions

Storeroom 3, shelf C 06

Comments

Search for additional pictures. Spiral design

Keyword

ceramics

Cf Publications

Petrie, W.M.F., Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes, BSAE, (London 1921), 33 A and B and 31 G, after Petrie, W.M.F., Prehistoric Egypt, BSAE, (London, 1920), 18: SD 40-45) Double jars, however, were more common in the Naqada I period than they were in Naqada II.

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