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beaker
Object Type
beaker
Museum number
EA51618
Description
Wheelmade ceramic beaker with simple direct rim, straight sides, and angled lower body to flat base. Pink-grey Aswan fabric. Very eroded; rim chipped and base worn. Painted frieze demarcated by two black painted lines below rim and two above angle of lower body; within, black and red painted degraded lotus flowers in a repeating pattern.
Cultures/periods
Meroitic
(?)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
University of Oxford
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Faras (Nubia)
, 1/2982 4
Materials
pottery
Technique
slip-painted
Dimensions
Diameter:
8.50 centimetres
Height:
7.70 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Adams 1986 / Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia, Part I, Part II
(Figure 19)
(Type A17)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair - rim chipped, base worn
Acquisition date
1912
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA51618
Registration number
1912,1109.476