Pottery cup made up of red fabric with painted decoration on the exterior. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery cup made up of red fabric with painted decoration on the exterior. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
Long description: Pottery cup made up of red fabric with painted decoration on the exterior, including an animal and a bird on the side and a cross on the base. Two bands painted just below the rim. Badly broken and repaired. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; [Nubia] Faras
Cultural groups: Nubian
Person: Field collector Francis Llewellyn Griffith; PRM source Francis Llewellyn Griffith
Date / Period: Date made: 1-300
Date collected: 1911- 1912
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1912
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Painted
Dimensions: Diameter: max 69 mm, Height: max 103 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1912.89.63 Other numbers: 1912.ß.333 I 2534 A
Research and responses: Examined in March 2007 by Eric McCann, a PhD student from the Institute of Archaeology London, who noted this object is a typical example from Faras of late Meroitic ceramics of 1st to 2nd century A.D. [ZM 29/03/2007]