pottery vessel, pottery vessel, decorated, keramikkärl, dekorerat, kärl

A jar with an ovoid body, ledge rim, tapering to a flat base and two tubular string-hole handles. Buff surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. It features multiple spiral motifs all over the body. Additionally there are single, randomly placed, wavy lines on various parts of the body. Further, there are horizontal wavy lines on and above the handles. The rim has two parallel circumscribing wavy lines. The ware is worn and the slip has cracked in places.
Spiral design

Petrie, W.M.F., Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes, BSAE, (London 1921),32L or also the larger ware, 35 N, after Petrie, W.M.F., Prehistoric Egypt, BSAE, (London, 1920), 18: both SD 58-63.
Earlier depicted in Earlier depicted in, Egyptiska museet Stockholm, Stockholm 1930, pl. 2 left.