IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 59998 accession number: E.GA.6389.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 11 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clay handmade bowl, burnished horizontally on the inside; a red wash has been applied and polished on the outside. The inside is black and the outside is smoke-discoloured. the walls are very thin, measuring 2.0-2.5 mm in thickness. the rim is rilled (shaped to a thin point). Like many vessels from this period, the base is pointed and the bowl is unable to stand on its own. This vessel fits within a series known by archaeologists as A-group, a term that refers to early Nubian pottery. this particular piece is placed at the end of the dating sequence. The pot as some cracks to walls but is otherwise in good condition. object type: clay handmade bowl, polishe and burnished. title: bowl 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/59998 TECHNIQUES ---------- burnished TECHNIQUES ---------- polished TECHNIQUES ---------- handmade CATEGORIES ------ category: vessel DATING ------ creation date: 3000 - 3000 creation date earliest: 3000 creation date latest: 3000 culture: terminal A-Group DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: m value: 0.217 dimension: Height units: m value: 0.136 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Umm el-Ga'ab CITATIONS -------- 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/ant32/E_GA_6389_1943.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_GA_6389_1943.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_GA_6389_1943.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_GA_6389_1943.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels