Red and black pottery made from Nile silt is well-known from the period of the Badarian culture, and above all from the period of Naqada I and the beginning of Naqada II. This two-colour effect, resulting from a special method of firing, is highly characteristic. This particular example is decorated with incisions representing gazelles, oryxes, and hunting dogs, and was probably used for containing provisions for the deceased in his tomb.
J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 12
F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 16
S. Hendrickx, Prehistorische en vroegdynastische oudheden uit Egypte - Antiquités préhistoriques et protodynastiques d'Égypte, Bruxelles 1994, 18-19
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