Vessel
pottery
20.4 cm
30.0 cm + x
clay
Almost complete jar with a U-shaped base. Made of well-fired, reddish yellow clay. The jar is decorated with black-red-black bands on the neck and black dots on three black bands around the body. Neck D: 4.0 cm. 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). 9
- 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, 72, 74-78