IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 51243 accession number: E.13.1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 21 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Kerma beaker, with black top decoration. Made in Nubia (Southern Egypt/Sudan) and found in a grave at the Egyptian cemetery of Abydos. The vessel is made from Nile Silt clay and has very thin walls, measuring from 2-5 mm in thickness. The rim is asymmetrical and the interior was smoothed with fingers, and burnished (rubbed with a hard object horizontally). Outside there is a red wash on the lower section of the pot which was then polished. This type of ware is called red and black. This vessel came from the grave of a Nubian living in Egypt who belonged to a group of people called the Kerma culture. Only a few familes of the Kerma people found their way into Egypt. It is therefore of interest that they brought pottery with them, along with other goods, but chose a traditional Egyptian manner of burial. The base is rounded. The pot is complete, which is remarkable given its fragile structure. object type: Clay beaker, with black top decoration. Made in Nubia (Southern Egypt/Sudan) title: beaker (vessel) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/51243 TECHNIQUES ---------- burnished TECHNIQUES ---------- polished TECHNIQUES ---------- handmade CATEGORIES ------ category: vessel DATING ------ creation date: 1773 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1773 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 13th Dynasty culture: Middle Kingdom culture: Second Intermediate period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 14.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Umm el-Ga'ab CITATIONS -------- Les Cultures Kerma The Cemeteries of Abydos [vol. 2] Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 935 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/mid_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 548 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 935 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/preview_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/141/large_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 1123 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/141/mid_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 548 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/141/E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 3000 pixels width: 2736 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/141/preview_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/142/large_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1123 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/142/mid_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_mas.jpg height: 548 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/142/E_13_1911_201810_adn21_mas.jpg height: 4948 pixels width: 4512 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/142/preview_E_13_1911_201810_adn21_mas.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels