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Black Top Jar

1912.01.0005

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Artifact Identification Black Top Jar   (1912.01.0005)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Distribution & Transportation Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Containers
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  3. N/A
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Predynastic
Date 5200 – 3050 BCE
Culture Egyptian
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 16.2 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 9.1 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 7.1 cm
Weight 342 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Ceramic--Earthenware
Manufacturing Processes Handbuilding, Firing

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Baines & Málek. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980.

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes. British School of Egyptian Archaeology, 1921.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Corpus of Proto- Dynastic Pottery. British School of Egyptian Archaeology, 1953.

PETRIE, W. M. F., Abydos, Part I, 1902. Twenty-Second Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1902.

PETRIE, W. M. F., Abydos, Part II, 1903. Twenty-Fourth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1903.

AYRTON, E. R., CURRELLY, M. A. and WEIGALL, A. E. P. Abydos, Part III, 1904. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1904.

NAVILLE, E., “Excavations at Abydos”, ArchRep 1909-1910, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1910, p.1-7.

NAVILLE, E., “Excavations at Abydos”, ArchRep 1910-1911, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1911, p.1-4.

NAVILLE, E., “Excavations at Abydos”, ArchRep 1911-1912, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1912, p.1-8.

NAVILLE, E., The Cemeteries of Abydos, Part I. 1909-1910. The Mixed Cemetery and Umm el-Ga’ab. Thirty-Third Memoir of the Exploration Fund, London, 1914.

ERIC PEET, T. The Cemeteries of Abydos, Part II. 1911-1912. Thirty-Fourth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1914.

ERIC PEET, T. and LOAT, W. L. S., The Cemeteries of Abydos, Part III. 1912-1913. Thirty-Fifth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1913.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Egypt Exploration Society
Reproduction no

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