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MM 18793 :: pottery vessel, decorated, pottery vessel

Object description: A small vessel with an ovoid body tapering to a narrow flat base, a modelled rim and two horizontal string hole handles, which are not drilled through completely. Drab surface with an external decoration in maroon. It features two large spiral motifs on either side of the vessel, separated by three parallel vertical lines, which run from below the rim, down over the ledges and continues in under the base and terminates up on the other side, below the rim. On top of the rim are remains of decoration.

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Inventory number

MM 18793

Serie nummer

5487

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; Keramik

Exhibitions

Storeroom 3, shelf C 06

Description

A small vessel with an ovoid body tapering to a narrow flat base, a modelled rim and two horizontal string hole handles, which are not drilled through completely. Drab surface with an external decoration in maroon. It features two large spiral motifs on either side of the vessel, separated by three parallel vertical lines, which run from below the rim, down over the ledges and continues in under the base and terminates up on the other side, below the rim. On top of the rim are remains of decoration.

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

Comments

Spiral design

Keyword

ceramics

Cf Publications

Petrie, W.M.F., Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes, BSAE, (London 1921), 31 A-G (after Petrie, W.M.F., Prehistoric Egypt, BSAE, (London, 1920), 18: SD 40-45)

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