Vessel
pottery
7.7 cm (base)
7.5 cm + x
clay
Lower part of a beer jar with a flat base made of reddish brown, soft mud clay. Finger prints preserved on the lower part of the vessel. Found burried in mortar with finger prints in mortar suggesting that it was used as a mortar container for some time.
Found by the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari behind the wall of the Northern Colonnade in the Middle Terrace.
Find
Bibliography:
- Szafrański, Zbigniew E., Pottery from the Time of Construction of the Hatshepsut Temple, Discussion in Egyptology 22, 1992, 55-56, Fig(s). 11
- Daszkiewicz, Małgorzata, Jelitto, Jacek, Preliminary Report on Results of Thin-sections Analysis of Pottery from the Trial Trenches in the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Discussion in Egyptology 22, 1992, 61-62, 66, 73-78