Pottery jar
- Accession Number
- AB88
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Predynastic case
- Object Type
- Receptacle/vessel, Jar
- Period
- Predynastic Period
- Naqada III
- IIIB
- Material
- Pottery (Marl)
- Provenance
- Egypt, Tarkhan
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Measurements
- Height: 235mm | Maximum Diameter: 103mm | Rim Diameter: 102mm | Base Diameter: 95mm | Height of Maximum Diameter: 235mm | Vessel Index: 43
Licensing details
- Description
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A cylindrical pottery jar with a flat base, rolled rim, and raised scallop patterning near the rim. Such vessels date from the Predynastic to the Early Dynastic Period. They are made from Marl clay, which needs a higher firing temperature that Nile clay. It was excavated by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt at the site of Tarkhan during the 1911–12 season. The object was gifted to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by John Bancroft Willans, a subscriber of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, who received the object in 1912, and was subsequently gifted to the Egypt Centre in 1997.
- Bibliography
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, G. A. Wainwright, and A. H. Gardiner 1913. Tarkhan I and Memphis V. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [23] (19th year). London, Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld. [pl. XLIX]
- Other Identity
- CA104 (Aberystwyth number written on the base in black ink)
- Previous Owners
- British School of Archaeology in Egypt | John Bancroft Willans (1881–1957) | University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Excavation Details
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Excavated by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt at the site of Tarkhan during the 1911–12 season.
- Acquisition
- Gift, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth (24 Mar 1997)
- Munsell Chart Reading
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Interior (core): 2.5YR 4/6 red | Surface: 10YR 7/3 very pale brown | Exterior: 10YR 6/4 light yellowish-brown
- Vienna System
- Marl A