IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 59121 accession number: E.GA.4669.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clay handmade bowl, iwth red painted decoration of inverted triangles and a rope design imitating basketwork at the base. The bowl has a pointed base and is not able to stand upright without a support. The clay is nile silt and this particular type of finish is known as 'egg-shell' ware. The walls are very thin measuring 3.0 mm on average. The inside is black and the exterial is light brown and polished. Both inside and outside are burnished (this was usually with a stone). It is possible that the basket design at the base of this object was a reference to the true baskets that were used to support such vessels or that it represents a support that was used during the manufacturing process. It was most likely made in Nubia (southern Egypt or Sudan) and was probably found in Egypt in a grave. The bowl has broken in a number of places and has been repaired. object type: Clay handmade bowl, with red painted decoration in the form of triangles and a basket pattern on the base . title: bowl LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59121 TECHNIQUES ---------- painted TECHNIQUES ---------- burnished TECHNIQUES ---------- handmade CATEGORIES ------ category: vessel DATING ------ creation date: 3000 - 3000 creation date earliest: 3000 creation date latest: 3000 culture: terminal A-Group DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: m value: 0.208 dimension: Height units: m value: 0.112 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Umm el-Ga'ab CITATIONS -------- Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_GA_4669_1943.jpg height: 519 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_GA_4669_1943.jpg height: 341 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_GA_4669_1943.jpg height: 519 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_GA_4669_1943.jpg height: 171 pixels width: 250 pixels