Rim sherd of a faience vessel


Accession Number
EC139
Current Location
House of Life (first floor), Faience and glass case
Object Type
Receptacle/vessel, Bowl
Period
New Kingdom
Dynasty
Eighteenth Dynasty
Material
Faience
Number of Elements
1
Culture
Egyptian
Measurements
Length: 62mm | Width: 59mm | Thickness: 10mm

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Description

A dark blue faience rim sherd of a marsh bowl or lotus bowl. It is painted inside and out with linear lotus designs. The shape of the bowl is carinated. Shallow open bowls like this are often called 'marsh bowls' or 'nun bowls'. They were particularly common in the Eighteenth Dynasty and show marsh scenes such as lotus plants and fish; symbols of regeneration. At Nubian Sai, the bowls were found in contexts with other ritual bowls suggesting that they were used for ritual offering and libation (Tschorn, S. 2017. Nun-Schalen aus der Stadt des Neuen Reiches auf der Insel Sai, Ägypten und Levante 27, 431–446). See also EC508a.