Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian shallow bowl, Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3100-2686 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian shallow bowl, Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3100-2686 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian shallow bowl, Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3100-2686 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian shallow bowl, Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3100-2686 BC
Egyptian shallow bowl, Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3100-2686 BC
Variegated red and yellow limestone
Diameter: 12cm
10810 TA
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The smooth, relatively thin walls are slightly uneven and flare outward from a narrow flat base, with slight inwards curve towards the rounded, slightly uneven rim. Intact.

Provenance

Abdel-Rahman or Tano (?), Egypt, "Hehia, near Zagazig" (as listed in the collection inventory)
Maurice Bouvier, Alexandria, Egypt; acquired from the above and exported to Switzerland in 1959, thence by descent

Literature

For the form see A. El-Khouli, Egyptian Stone Vessels; Predynastic Period to Dynasty III (Mainz, 1978), pl.103, nos.3892-3900, and W. Arnold Meijer, Master of Stone: Egyptian Stone Vessels from Predynastic Times to the Middle Kingdom (Amsterdam, 2018), p.36, no.26 and for the stone see ibid., p.21, no.11
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