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MM 10391 :: pottery vessel

Object description: A jug with a medium tall neck, remains of a modelled rim?, neck, rim? to shoulder handle, bulbous body which tapers and terminates with a ring base. Black coated, polished with an incised white cross line decoration. It features four successive circles at the base of the neck, below are four registers, filled in with rows of dots. The registers are interrupted by three vertical lines. The shoulder has two parallel horizontal lines. On the lower body is a repeated version of registers and lines, followed by two parallel lines. The lower body has seventeen vertical lines. The decoration is terminated by three successive circles.

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Inventory number

MM 10391

Serie nummer

7601

Previous ID

E391

Object

pottery vessel

Object, Swedish

kärl

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Luxor

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Lera; Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased from R.G. Gayer-Anderson

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

A jug with a medium tall neck, remains of a modelled rim?, neck, rim? to shoulder handle, bulbous body which tapers and terminates with a ring base. Black coated, polished with an incised white cross line decoration. It features four successive circles at the base of the neck, below are four registers, filled in with rows of dots. The registers are interrupted by three vertical lines. The shoulder has two parallel horizontal lines. On the lower body is a repeated version of registers and lines, followed by two parallel lines. The lower body has seventeen vertical lines. The decoration is terminated by three successive circles.

Period

Second Intermediate Period (c.1664-c.1569 BC) [?]

Period, Swedish

Andra intermediet (ca.1664-1081 f Kr) [?]

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

-1664

Time - Manufacturing, latest

-1569

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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