Burnished clay bowl, from Abydos

An image of Vessel. Bowl. Clay bowl, made from Nile silt clay. Production Place: Egypt (Nubia). Find Spot: Abydos. Red polish with black top decoration. The interior is also black. The vessel is finger-modelled with horizontal burnishing inside and out. This type of pottery came from burials known as 'Pan-grave', which are shallow graves sometimes re-using earlier burial shafts. Pan-grave was a Nubian culture. This vessel was excavated from the cemetery of Abydos. The vessel has roughly one third missing and the remaining sections have a number of breaks, which have been repaired. Clay, finger-modelled, burnished, diameter 0.175 m, length 0.115 m, circa 1794 to circa 1550 B.C. Second Intermediate period.

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Vessel. Bowl. Clay bowl, made from Nile silt clay. Production Place: Egypt (Nubia). Find Spot: Abydos. Red polish with black top decoration. The interior is also black. The vessel is finger-modelled with horizontal burnishing inside and out. This type of pottery came from burials known as 'Pan-grave', which are shallow graves sometimes re-using earlier burial shafts. Pan-grave was a Nubian culture. This vessel was excavated from the cemetery of Abydos. The vessel has roughly one third missing and the remaining sections have a number of breaks, which have been repaired. Clay, finger-modelled, burnished, diameter 0.175 m, length 0.115 m, circa 1794 to circa 1550 B.C. Second Intermediate period.

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Accession Number: E.78.1911
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Fnumber: 22/1

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Abydos Ancient Egypt antiquity BC black bowl burnished clay Egyptian Fitz_ANT model modelled Nubian pottery red Second Intermediate Period vessel

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