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MME 1969:097 :: vessel, pottery, jar

Object description: A necked jar, with a bulging body, tapering to a narrow flat base, modelled rim and two tubular string hole handles. The vessel’s mouth is on an angle. Drab surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. It features two boats. One has eighteen oars, the other has twenty. Both have two cabins and a branch at the bow and a standard. The ships have two parallel, horizontal wavy lines below the oars and two parallel, vertical wavy lines, separate the two vessel. There are two S-signs above one boat.The base has a spiral which ¨winds¨ its way up and around the lower body. The handles have a lattice-patterned decoration. Finally, there are traces of decoration on top of the rim.

Data elements

Inventory number

MME 1969:097

Serie nummer

5512

Previous ID

H 104

Object

vessel; pottery; jar

Object, Swedish

kärl; keramik

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Lera; Keramik

Acquisition

From the Reinhold Holtermann collection

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. Holtermanns samling.

Description

A necked jar, with a bulging body, tapering to a narrow flat base, modelled rim and two tubular string hole handles. The vessel’s mouth is on an angle. Drab surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. It features two boats. One has eighteen oars, the other has twenty. Both have two cabins and a branch at the bow and a standard. The ships have two parallel, horizontal wavy lines below the oars and two parallel, vertical wavy lines, separate the two vessel. There are two S-signs above one boat.The base has a spiral which ¨winds¨ its way up and around the lower body. The handles have a lattice-patterned decoration. Finally, there are traces of decoration on top of the rim.

Name - Acquired from

Holtermann, Reinhold Oscar Christian (1899-10-20 - 1960), artist

Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Keyword

ceramics

Cf Publications

Petrie, W.M.F., Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes, BSAE, (London 1921), 41D,

Petrie, W.M.F., Prehistoric Egypt, BSAE, (London, 1920), 19: single branch before 46. The standard: ibid. pl. XXIII no. 24: early-middle, SD52.

Lucas, P. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries , London, 1962, 370 f.

Möller, G. Die Archäologischen Ergebnisse des vorgeschichtlichen Gräberfeldes von Abusir el-Meleq, Leipzig, 1926, 22 and pls.12 and 35

Publications

George, B. , Frühe Keramik aus Ägypten, MedMusB ,no.10 (Stockholm, 1975), p. 87,no.144

PhotoNegNo

3306

Height / Höjd

11,5 cm

Diameter

6,5 cm; 9,7 cm

Dimensions

H. 11.5 cm, Max Ø 9.7 cm, rim Ø 6.5 cm, Base Ø 3.2 cm

Condition

Complete, slightly worn rim.

Original register

Egypt

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