Flat-bottomed jar

Flat-bottomed jar with a rather short neck bearing an orange slip. There is black and red decoration in two horizontal superposed bands on the upper part of the exterior. The upper one is completely filled with a black design representing a vine-branch, a theme borrowed from Hellenistic Egypt, while the lower band contains a frieze composed of a series of drop-like shapes linked together by two horizontal lines.

Present location INSTITUT DE PAPYROLOGIE ET D'ÉGYPTOLOGIE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE III [02/049] LILLE
Inventory number L 0312
Dating MEROITIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site AKSHA/SERRA WEST
Category JAR
Material POTTERY
Technique FORMED ON THE POTTER'S WHEEL
Height 23.7 cm


Diameter 19 cm


Bibliography•Geus Francis, Nubie, les cultures antiques du Soudan, catalogue d'exposition, Lille,1994, p.110, n°144.
•Vila André, "Le cimetière méroïtique", dans Aksha II, Paris, 1967, p.233, fig.206,c et pl. VI,4.
•Gratien Brigitte, La Nubie au temps des pharaons, catalogue d'exposition, [Boulogne-sur-mer], 1975, p.27, n°291.

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