Description:
Black-topped red ware jar. Tall, narrow shape, tapering to flat bottom, one inch in diameter. Black area around mouth, rest dark red. Polished to smooth surface. Fine quality.

Image depicted in "The Chronology of Egyptian Predynastic Black-Topped Ware," by Eliz Finkenstaedt in Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 1976. Copy in object file.

Tags:
ancient; archaeology; containers; vessels; pottery; jars

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