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Clay bowl: E.101.1921

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Current Location: Gallery 24

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Description

Clay bowl, with rim painted red.

Clay bowl, wheelmade from Nile silt clay and painted with a red band around the rim. The base is rounded and the pot does not stand upright unaided. It is likely that it was supported by a stand or rope. From the Sanam cemetery, this type of pottery would have been used by people every day and here serves the purpose as a grave object to be used by the owner in the after life. The bowl is complete but there is a small section missing from the side. One side has smoke damage, perhaps from the kiln or where it was used close to a fire.

Measurements and weight

Length: 0.13 m

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia

Dating

Meroitic
Circa -700 BCE - Circa -600 BCE

Materials used in production

Clay

Techniques used in production

Wheelmade

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.101.1921
Primary reference Number: 52120
Oldadmincategory: P
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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