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Clay Bowl

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Title/s	Clay Bowl
Category	vessel
Name	bowl
Description	bowl, with pink painted decoration, of hippopotami, crocodiles, dogs, plants, ?birds and geometric patterns. Nile silt clay, white-painted ware.
Field Collection	Egypt
Dimensions	diameter 13.7 cm height 10.5 cm
Period	Nagada I & Predynastic period
Date	3500 B.C.
Provenance	given: family of late F.W.Green 1950 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Bourriau, J.D. (1981) Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest (1981) [comments: no.76]
Material/s	ceramic
Accession Number	E.4.1950 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 62030; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Clay Bowl