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beaker
Object Type
beaker
Museum number
EA30967
Description
Nile silt pottery beaker, exterior coated with red slip with black top and well-burnished, flat base and slightly convex flaring sides everting at the lip. Interior lip slipped and burnished, rest of interior untreated.
Cultures/periods
Predynastic
(Naqada IC)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Hiw
, Grave R128
Materials
pottery
Technique
burnished
slipped
Dimensions
Diameter:
10 centimetres
(maximum)
Height:
15.80 centimetres
Curator's comments
Black top red ware B21A or B26a in Petrie’s Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery (1921). Marked R128 on side.
Location
Not on display
Condition
good
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1899
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA30967
Registration number
1899,1017.123