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Decorated vessel of the Predynastic Period

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This large vessel has been fitted with two loop handles as well as two wavy handles. It is decorated with ornamental as well as figurative brown-painted figures. The representations include mountain goats and ostriches in between cross-hatched fields, which are perhaps hunter's nets. Below is a frieze of triangles which is perhaps meant to symbolize the mountainous desert.

Present location

PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM

Inventory number

0686

Dating

NAQADA II

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

VASE

Material

CLAY; UNSPECIFIED

Technique

FORMED BY HAND; BURNED; PAINTED

Height

21.5 cm

Diameter

14 cm

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