Black-Topped Red Ware Vessel
Before 3200 BCE
Predynastic Period (ca. 5300-3000 BCE)
6 1/4 x 5 1/16 in. (15.9 x 12.8 cm)
Unknown, Egyptian
Egyptian
Object Type:
Ceramics
Medium and Support:
Terracotta
Credit Line:
The C. Herbert Ocumpaugh Collection
Accession Number:
1928.106
Location: Currently on view
Collection:
The C. Herbert Ocumpaugh Collection
The interior and rim of these red vessels were purposely blackened through carbonization by standing a hot, freshly fired pot, rim down, on a bed of chopped straw or chaff.
[Gallery label text, 2004]