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Attic Black-Glaze Small Bowl or Salt Cellar

1912.01.0022

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Basic Information

Artifact Identification	Attic Black-Glaze Small Bowl or Salt Cellar (1912.01.0022)
Classification/ Nomenclature	Materials T&E : Food Service T&E : Serving Vessels
Artist/Maker	Unknown
Geographic Location	Africa, North : Egypt : Nile Delta : Kom Gi'eif : Naukratis ; Beheira Governorate
Period/Date	26th Dynasty, 425 – 400 BCE
Culture	Greek - Attic, Graeco-Egyptian

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Diameter)	9.2 cm
Dimension 2 (Depth)	2.8 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A)	N/A
Weight	81 g
Measuring Remarks	None
Materials	Pigment--Slip, Ceramic--Terracotta
Manufacturing Processes	Throwing, Firing
Munsell Color Information	Black (N 2/ 3.1% R) -Black slip. Moderate Yellowish Pink (5YR 8/4) -Light clay body. Light Grayish Brown (5YR 6.5/3) -Dark clay body.

Research Remarks

Published Description	Attic Back-Glaze Small Bowl or Salt Cellar Shape and Ornament - Convex body with incurving rim, disk foot. Fully glazed, except for two bands on underside of foot. Dimensions and Condition - H. 0.028 m.; d. body 0.092 m. Tan clay, glossy black glaze very worn and abraded. About 425 - 400 B.C. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 35, 1.
Description	N/A
Comparanda	Spurlock Museum 1912.01.0023, 1912.01.0024 Royal Ontario Museum 919.5.71 (Hayes, Greek and Italian Black-gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1984. Pp. 40-41, no. 66, with additional comparanda). Copenhagen 7626 (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Copenhague 4 [Danemark 4], p. 140, pl. 179 : 4) and Copenhagen 7625, 478 (ibid., p. 139, pl. 177 : 9-10) Agora P 8950 (Sparkes and Talcott, The Athenian Agora vol. 12: Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C., 1970. Pp. 133-134, 297, no. 850, pl. 33).
Bibliography	James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 32, Plate 35, 1. PETRIE, W. M. F., Naukratis. Part I., 1884-5. Third Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1886. GARDNER, E. A., Naukratis, Part II. Sixth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1888. Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, The British Museum (online catalogue)

Artifact History

Archaeological Data	N/A
Credit Line/Dedication	Egypt Exploration Society
Reproduction	no
Reproduction Information	N/A

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