Sherd of a pottery vessel
- Accession Number
- EC214
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Amarna case
- Object Type
- Receptacle/vessel
- Classification
- Palace ware
- Period
- New Kingdom
- Dynasty
- Eighteenth Dynasty
- Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten to Tutankhamun
- Material
- Pottery (Nile silt)
- Provenance
- Egypt, Amarna
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Measurements
- Height: 59mm | Width: 80mm
Licensing details
- Description
-
A sherd of blue-painted pottery from Amarna. This sherd is wheel-made. The decoration includes a blue band flanked with black lines with a central line, red oval shapes flanked by black lines, and evidence of outlined petals of the blue lotus tapering downwards. There is a cartouche carved into the surface of the sherd however this is believed to be a modern addition as it was carved after firing and it is not possible to read the hieroglyphs.
- Bibliography
-
Berman, L.M., 1999 'Catalogue of Egyptian Art. The Cleveland Museum'; Hope, C.A. 1991 Blue-painted and Polychrome Decorated Pottery from Amarna- a Preliminary Corpus. 'Cahiers de la céramique égyptienne' 2 (1991), 17-93. Budka, 2013 Festival Pottery of New Kingdom Egypt: Three Case Studies, in Functional Aspects of Egyptian Ceramics within their Archaeological Context. Proceedings of a Conference held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, July 24th – July 25th, 2009, ed. by Bettina, B. & Mary, F. Ownby, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 217, Leuven, 185–213.
- Munsell Chart Reading
-
Internal: 2.5YR 6/4 Light Reddish Brown
- Vienna System
- Nile D