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Clay bowl
Clay handmade bowl with rippled decoration.
Clay bowl, handmade with finger marks inside. The outside has a vertical rippling effect, together with horizontal burnishing both in and out. This type of effect was often created by using a stone. The base is unevenly finished with the result that the bowl does not sit straight. This type of rippled ware pottery was commonly made in Nubia (Southern Egypt and Sudan) during the fourth millennium BC. The walls of the pot are very thin measuring 3.50 mm at their thickest point. The clay used is nile silt and it is fired to produce a dark finish that is so typical of early Nubian pottery. The findspot of this object is uncertain, it is likely that it was made in Nubia and was perhaps then traded or taken to Egypt, where it was most likely included as a grave object, belonging to a trader or settler. This type of pottery is known as A-group by archaeologists because of its early date within the chronological sequence for early Nubia. there are some chips around the rim, otherwise the vessel is in good condition.
Diameter: 0.179 m
Height: 0.124 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
A-Group
Circa
-3500
BCE
-
-3000
BCE
Accession number: E.GA.6390.1943
Primary reference Number: 59999
Oldadmincategory: P
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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