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MM 11143 :: pottery vessel

Object description: A large, deep, bowl with a wide mouth, direct rim, flaring profile and a flat base. Black coated interior and rim, red coated exterior. The black rim has a raised relief motif and the body has three rows of triangles filled in with motifs of lattice and vertical zig-zag patterns. The base has incised V-lines with lattice and vertical zig-zag patterns.

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Inventory number

MM 11143

Serie nummer

7559

Previous ID

E1143

Object

pottery vessel

Object, Swedish

kärl

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Aswan

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Lera; Keramik; Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased from Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson, 3.9.1934

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

A large, deep, bowl with a wide mouth, direct rim, flaring profile and a flat base. Black coated interior and rim, red coated exterior. The black rim has a raised relief motif and the body has three rows of triangles filled in with motifs of lattice and vertical zig-zag patterns. The base has incised V-lines with lattice and vertical zig-zag patterns.

Period

C-group, Nubian (c.2300-c.1600 BC)

Period, Swedish

C-grupp, Nubisk (ca.2300-ca.1600 f Kr)

Name - Acquired from

Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville

Description: Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Major, after qualifying as a Doctor at Guy's Hospital, became an officer in the Royal Army, Medical Corps. He received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1903. He was lent to the Egyptian Government in 1905 by the British Government and spent the rest of his carrier in service of Egypt, in both military and civil capacities, reaching the rank of "Lewa" (Major General) and having the title of Pasha conferred upon him. He collected Egyptian objects of great significance. They are preserved in Gayer-Anderson Pasha museum in Cairo. He is the author of "Legends of the Bait al-Kretliya" (Luzac, London) and Christeros, poems (Wilding, Shrewsbury). He died in Lavenham in 1945. (www.indianminiature.org, 2012-08-31)
Source - http: vocab.getty.edu, collections.smvk.se, digitaltmuseum.org, id.loc.gov
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org, viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

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