cup
- Museum number
- EA30988
- Description
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Cup of Nile silt pottery with flat base, flaring sides and everted rim, coated on the exterior with red slip, burnished and decorated in creamy-white pigment with a series of panels delimited by vertical lines filled with 3 sets of chevrons. The interior lip is slipped, burnished and decorated with 7 groups of 6 short lines running perpendicular to the rim.
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Decoration similar to White Cross line ware C52 in Petrie’s Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery (1921).
From Petrie’s excavations at Abadiyeh: see W. M. F. Petrie, Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu. Egypt Exploration Fund Memoir 20. (London 1901).
Published: G. Graff, Les peintures sur vases de Naqada I–Naqada II: Nouvelle approche sémiologique de l’iconographie prédynastique, Leuven (2009), cat. no.91. Graff suggests the decoration is meant to represent vegetation.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair, rim chipped, part of base broken away.
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA30988
- Registration number
- 1899,1017.144