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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
EA77261
Description
Approximately half of a handmade Late Christian Painted White Domestic Ware bowl, preserving the profile. The vessel has been reconstructed and is currently in two parts. The sides flare outward, the rim is rounded and thick and the base, plain and rounded. The surface is burnished and covered in a tan slip on the exterior. The interior is a smudged dark-brown. A row of impressions from the end of a date-seed decorate the exterior of the rim. The fabric is fairly dense, medium coarse, Nile mud, brown in colour. The fabric has some organic temper and small solid particles.
Cultures/periods
Late Christian Period
(?)
Terminal Christian Period
(?)
Post-Christian
(?)
Production date
1350-1600
(earliest appearance 1150AD)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Kulubnarti
, 21-S-2 House H1 room 1-19
Materials
pottery
Type series
Group DIII, Ware H14
(Late Christian Painted White Domestic Ware)
Technique
handmade
Dimensions
Diameter:
156 millimetres
Height:
95 millimetres
Thickness:
9 millimetres
(rim)
Bibliographic references
Adams & Adams 1998 / Kulubnarti II, The Artifactual Remains
(p.108)
Adams 1986 / Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia, Part I, Part II
(p.432-433)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Reconstructed.
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
EA77261
Registration number
2005,0401.136
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
21-S-2/773
(excavation number)
Excavation/small finds number:
85.2.239
(excavation object cat. no.)