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MM 18842 :: pottery vessel, decorated, pottery vessel

Object description: A necked vessel with an inverted piriform body, modelled rim and tapering to a narrow flat base. It has no handles. Iron red surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. The shoulder and upper body feature five bands of nine horizontal wavy lines. Each band is separated from the next by three parallel vertical wavy lines. Additionally, abutting the last of the horizontal lines are three vertical wavy lines. Three horizontal parallel wavy lines circumscribe the lower body and traverse all the vertical lines.

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References (1)

Inventory number

MM 18842

Serie nummer

6443

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

A necked vessel with an inverted piriform body, modelled rim and tapering to a narrow flat base. It has no handles. Iron red surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. The shoulder and upper body feature five bands of nine horizontal wavy lines. Each band is separated from the next by three parallel vertical wavy lines. Additionally, abutting the last of the horizontal lines are three vertical wavy lines. Three horizontal parallel wavy lines circumscribe the lower body and traverse all the vertical 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 12

Comments

Wavy line design.

Keyword

ceramics

Cf Publications

Petrie, W.M.F., Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes, BSAE, (London 1921), 20N, 21M

Petrie, W.M.F., Diospolis Parva, London 1901,pl. XV 21b

Baumgartel, E.J., The Cultures of Prehistoric Egypt, I: Oxford, 1947; II; Oxford, 1960, 28

Mond, R. and Myers, O.H., Cemeteries of Armant I, London, 1937, pp.167, 177 ff.

Publications

George, B., Frühe Keramik aus Ägypten, MedMusB, No. 10, (1975), p.74, no.121

PhotoNegNo

Dig. neg.MM18842a, Museum neg.3351

Reference - Published in

George, Beate (1975) "Frühe Keramik aus Ägypten" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 10 (1975).

Source - http: libris.kb.se, books.google.se, archive.org

Height / Höjd

19,2 cm

Diameter

8,2 cm; 17,5 cm

Dimensions

H. 19.2cm., Max.Ø. 17.5cm., rim Ø. 8.2cm., Base Ø. 5.9cm.

Condition

Complete, sligthtly damaged rim.

Original register

Egypt

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