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Clay cup
Clay cup or beaker, with rounded base.
Clay cup or beaker with a rounded base. Wheelmade from Nile silt clay and with a slip applied to the outside, which is red in colour. Such objects would have been used from day to day. This particular example was then buried in a grave. Complete but with a crack running from the rim.
Length: 0.11 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia
Meroitic
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-700
BCE
-
Circa
-600
BCE
Accession number: E.125.1921
Primary reference Number: 52143
Oldadmincategory: P
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Clay cup" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/52143 Accessed: 2024-12-23 14:09:04
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