Cooking pot, with a spherical body beaten out of clay tempered with organic matter, and a coiled wide straight neck. [ASh [OPS move] 09/03/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Cooking pot, with a spherical body beaten out of clay tempered with organic matter, and a coiled wide straight neck. [ASh [OPS move] 09/03/2016]
Long description: Cooking pot, with a spherical body beaten out of clay tempered with organic matter, and a coiled wide straight neck. Slipped with red haematite and mica. A black mark indicates that it was fired on its side "'mouth over base for a red oxidised interior" (ref. 4). Graphite bands decorate the rim and neck-body junction, and the pattern impressed on the body during its rotation on a fibre pounding mat. [ASh [OPS move] 09/03/2016]
Geographical reference: Sudan, Republic of
Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of; Northern Darfur El Fasher
Cultural groups: Berti
Person: Field collector Natalie Tobert; PRM source Natalie Tobert
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1982
Date collected: January - June 1982
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1982
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Haematite Stone, Material Mica Stone, Process Coiled, Process Slipped, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Impressed
Dimensions: Diameter: max 225 mm, Height: max 250 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1982.20.7

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