Lot Essay
For a similar example in basalt from El'Adaima see no. 116, pp. 239-241 in Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in The Brooklyn Museum.
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PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA I, CIRCA 4000-3600 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN ROSE GRANITE VESSEL
PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA I,
CIRCA 4000-3600 B.C.
The thick-walled tapering cylindrical vessel with a broad base and a wide overhanging disk rim
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA I,
CIRCA 4000-3600 B.C.
The thick-walled tapering cylindrical vessel with a broad base and a wide overhanging disk rim
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
Provenance
J. Garnish Collection, acquired in Egypt in the 1930s.
Literature
I. Rizkana and J. Seeher, Maadi II, The Lithic Industries of the Predynastic Settlement, Excavations at the Predynastic site of Maadi and its Cemeteries Conducted by Mustapha Amer and Ibrahim Rizkana on Behalf of the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts of Cairo University, 1930-1953, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, pl. XI, no. 11.