IDENTIFIERS
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id:	59998
accession number:	E.GA.6389.1943

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 26 July 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Clay handmade bowl, burnished horizontally on the inside; a red wash has been applied and polished on the outside. The inside is black and the outside is smoke-discoloured. the walls are very thin, measuring 2.0-2.5 mm in thickness. the rim is rilled (shaped to a thin point). Like many vessels from this period, the base is pointed and the bowl is unable to stand on its own. This vessel fits within a series known by archaeologists as A-group, a term that refers to early Nubian pottery. this particular piece is placed at the end of the dating sequence. The pot as some cracks to walls but is otherwise in good condition.
object type: clay handmade bowl, polishe and burnished.
title:	bowl

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59998





TECHNIQUES
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burnished
TECHNIQUES
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polished
TECHNIQUES
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handmade

CATEGORIES
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category: vessel

DATING
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creation date:	3000 - 3000
creation date earliest:	3000
creation date latest:	3000
culture:	terminal A-Group


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: m
value: 0.217

dimension: Height
units: m
value: 0.136



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Umm el-Ga'ab
CITATIONS
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Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest
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