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Clay bowl
Clay bowl, with rim painted red.
Clay bowl, wheelmade from Nile silt clay and painted with a red band around the rim. The base is rounded and the pot does not stand upright unaided. It is likely that it was supported by a stand or rope. From the Sanam cemetery, this type of pottery would have been used by people every day and here serves the purpose as a grave object to be used by the owner in the after life. The bowl is complete but there is a small section missing from the side. One side has smoke damage, perhaps from the kiln or where it was used close to a fire.
Length: 0.13 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia
Meroitic
Circa
-700
BCE
-
Circa
-600
BCE
Accession number: E.101.1921
Primary reference Number: 52120
Oldadmincategory: P
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Clay bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/52120 Accessed: 2024-11-25 15:06:34
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