Hemispherical pottery bowl, without stand, the outside decorated with a pattern of deeply engraved parallel lines in five triangular sectors, and with a row of projections below the rim. Fragment, two large sherds have been stuck together, a third triangular piece still missing.

Collection type: Object
Description: Hemispherical pottery bowl, without stand, the outside decorated with a pattern of deeply engraved parallel lines in five triangular sectors, and with a row of projections below the rim. Fragment, two large sherds have been stuck together, a third triangular piece still missing.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; southeastern Nigeria
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Incised
Dimensions: Diameter: max 164 mm, Height: max 90 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.1257 Other numbers: 101

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