- Description
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Fragment of Ptolemaic Alexandrian painted and moulded red-ware pottery goblet or amphorae. Dark brown, red, pink and white. Red-brown micaceous Nile silt fabric.
- Production date
- 200BC- 30BC
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by Egyptian Museum, Cairo. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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A pottery ware published by Bailey as part of an Alexandria-produced group of goblets, amphorae and other forms dating to the 2nd century BC, found at Alexandria and Naukratis (Bailey 2011, 71-93: goblet 1A 74-77, pls 2-8; goblet 1B 77- 81 pls9-11; goblet 1C 81-82, pl. 11; table amphora 2 82-84, pls 12-15; other form 84-85 pl. 15). Parallels have been given a wide variety of dates: ‘3rd to 4th century AD’ Kom es-Shugafa, Alexandria (Pagenstecher 1913, 130ff, pl. XLIII, 1 and 2; 133, fig. 141; pI. XLI V. 6; Guidotti 1980, 70-2. figs 11- 13; Rodzewicz 1985. Pl. I, 3 & 5), ‘ 2nd to 3rd century AD’ Egypt or Sudan (Hayes 1976. pl. 24, 191), ‘end 1st BC to beginning 1st century AD’ Kom el-Dikka, Alexandria (Rodziewicz 1976, 173. fig. 4. no. 6), ‘4th century AD’ Saqqara (Guidotti 1980, 65-81, pls I-II, plus parallels pls I-V), 2nd to 1st century BC context at Athribis (Południkiewcz 1992, 101, 12), ‘late 1st century BC, unprovenanced, in Louvre (Aubert & Cortopassi 1998, 158, no. 105), ‘1st century BC’ Diana theatre, Alexandria (Élaigne 1998, 105, fig. 2-12), ‘Late Ptolemaic’ Kom el-Dikka and Kom es-Shugafa, in Alexandria Greco-Roman Museum (Saad Rachwan 1998, 359-70), dated ‘Late Roman’, Naukratis (Leonard 2001, 194. fig. 3.7 and pl. 3.22).
Aubert, M. F. & Cortopassi, R. 1998. Vase paint, in Portraits de l’Égypte romaine, paris, 158.
Bailey, D. M. 2011. Drinking-goblets and table-amphorae groups of Ptolemaic painted pottery. CCE 9: 71-93.
Élaigne, S. 1998. Alexandrie –étude préliminaire d’un context céramique du Haut-Empire, in J-Y. Empereur (ed) Alexandrina I.
Guidotti, M. C. 1980, Alcuni vasi dipinti da Saqqara, EVO 3: 65-81.
Hayes, J. W. 1976. Roman pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, A catalogue. Toronto.
Pagenstecher, R. 1913. Die griechisch-ägyptische sammlung Ernst von Sieglin II, 3,. Leipzig.
Południkiewcz, A. 1992. Imitations of Greek pottery in Tell Atrib, CCE 3: 95-101.
Rodziewicz, M. 1976. Un quartier d’habitation gréco-romain à Kom el- Dikka, Etud Trav 9: 170-210.
Rodziewicz, M. 1985. On the origins of the Coptic painted pottery in Kharga Oasis, in Mélanges Gamal Eddin Mokhtar II, BdE 97/2: 235- 241, pls I-II.
Saad Rachwan, S. 1998. Un groupe de céramique à décor peit au Musée gréco-romain d’Alexandrie. Nouvelles données sur un atelier du Delta, in N. Bonacasa (ed.) L’Egitto in Italia dalla’antichità al medioevo, Atti dell III congress internazionale italoegiziano, Rome. 239-370.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: JE97814.2 (Accession Number)
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Miscellaneous number: SR5/14887