amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: EA77134
Description: Narrow-mouthed 2-handled amphora jar. Coarse Utility ware, Christian red utility ware, heavy-walled, rough-surfaced vessel of brick red colour. Reconstructed and preserved in 9+ fragments. Formerly contained foetus burial.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 550-850
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kulubnarti, 21-S-46 Burial 1, Superstructure 156
Materials
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 268 millimetres (max); Diameter: 66 millimetres (rim); Height: 484 millimetres; Thickness: 11 millimetres (rim)
Bibliographic references: Adams & Adams 1998 / Kulubnarti II, The Artifactual Remains (p.110); Adams 1986 / Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia, Part I, Part II (p. 522-523)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Donated by: Dr William Yewdale Adams; Donated by: W S Webb Museum of Anthropology (University of Kentucky)
Acquisition date: 2005
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA77134
Registration number: 2005,0401.8
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: 21-S-46/7 (excavation number); Excavation/small finds number: 85.8.7 (excavation object cat. no.); Excavation/small finds number: 93.2.3 (renumbered - excavation object number)
Conservation

Free entry