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Clay vessel with ancient repair

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Title/s	Clay vessel with ancient repair
Category	vessel
Name	beaker (vessel)
Description	Beaker, with impressed dots filled with white and incised lines for decoration. There are holes which may have been used to repair a break or breaks using a metal dowelling.
Field Collection	Edfu ? Egypt
Dimensions	diameter 11.6 cm length 14.9 cm
Period	Badarian Predynastic
Date	circa 5000 B.C.
Provenance	bequeathed: Gayer-Anderson, Major R.G. 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Bourriau, J.D. (1981) Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest (1981) [comments: no.26]
Material/s	clay
Accession Number	E.GA.4667.1943 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 59119; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Clay vessel with ancient repair