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1912.89.65

Pottery cup with a rounded base. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]

1912.89.65

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery cup with a rounded base. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
Long description
Pottery cup with a rounded base. Unglazed with brown painted decoration on the exterior, including floral and scroll patterns bordered by two bands near the base. Made up of multiple fragments and repaired. [ASh [OPS move] 10/02/2016]
Geographical reference
Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
[Nubia] Faras
Cultural groups
Nubian
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 77 mm, Height: max 78 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1912.89.65 Other numbers: 1912.ß.335 I 2471 R
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]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Death, Religion, Grave Good

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