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MM 18872 :: pottery vessel, white cross-lined, pottery vessel

Object description: A deep, open bowl with a flaring profile, direct rim and tapering to a narrow flat base. Red-polished exterior and interior. The latter, (worn) has an incised white-crossed lined decoration. It features multi linear, vertical V-shaped figures adjacent to the rim. In the vacant spaces inside of the V-shaped characters, there are what appears to represent a sheaf. The decoration is terminated by five multi linear triangles, (tips pointed up), and finally, abutting the bases of the four triangles, there is a circumscribing line.

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Inventory number: MM 18872
Serie nummer: 53775377
Object: pottery vessel, white cross-linedpottery%20vessel%2C%20white%20cross-lined; pottery vesselpottery%20vessel
Object, Swedish: kärlk%C3%A4rl; keramikkärl, med vita korslinjerkeramikk%C3%A4rl%2C%20med%20vita%20korslinjer
Country - Findspot: Egypt : Africa
Country, Swedish - Findspot: EgyptenEgypten
Material: ClayClay; PotteryPottery
Material, Swedish: LeraLera; KeramikKeramik; KeramikKeramik
Exhibitions: Storeroom 3, shelf B 10Storeroom%203%2C%20shelf%20B%2010
Description: A deep, open bowl with a flaring profile, direct rim and tapering to a narrow flat base. Red-polished exterior and interior. The latter, (worn) has an incised white-crossed lined decoration. It features multi linear, vertical V-shaped figures adjacent to the rim. In the vacant spaces inside of the V-shaped characters, there are what appears to represent a sheaf. The decoration is terminated by five multi linear triangles, (tips pointed up), and finally, abutting the bases of the four triangles, there is a circumscribing line.
Period: Predynastic Period (5500-c.3050 BC)Predynastic%20Period%20%285500-c.3050%20BC%29
Period, Swedish: Fördynastisk tid (5500-ca.3050 f Kr)F%C3%B6rdynastisk%20tid%20%285500-ca.3050%20f%20Kr%29
Time - Manufacturing, earliest: -5500-5500
Time - Manufacturing, latest: -3050-3050
Comments: Search for additonal pictures.
Keyword: ceramicsceramics
PhotoNegNo: Dig. neg. MM18872
Height / Höjd: 9 cm9%20cm
Diameter: 19,7 cm19%2C7%20cm
Dimensions: H. 9cm., rim Ø. 19.7cm.
Condition: Fragmentary, porous and worn.
Conservation - Executed: Desalted, returned 4 February, 1998Desalted%2C%20returned%204%20February%2C%201998
Original register: EgyptEgypt

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MM 18872 :: pottery vessel, white cross-lined, pottery vessel

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