A black ovoid basalt vase with two pierced lugs and a small circular foot (Aston type 12). The object was excavated by Guy Brunton from grave 11729 at Mostagedda in 1929. The source of stone is probably the Haddadin basalt flow near Cairo Mallory-Greenough (2002). This is perhaps a type 2d vessel, which is said by Mallory-Greenough (2002, 70) to date to Nagada I–II. These tend to occur in wealthy burials. Grave 11729 is described by Brunton (1937, 74) as a "grave covered with matting laid on sticks. Finer matting on and under body".

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