Image of 5 restored cream ware vessels, including (from left) a cup with an impressed pattern; a cup with a painted neck and frieze representing a string of beads; a cup decorated with dark brown figure possibly playing a drum; a hemispherical bowl decorated with stars on the interior and base decorated with a large rosette and a geometrical pattern; an unusual cup with spiked leaf decoration (reconstructed with fragments from site 923). Handwritten note with negative states 'Meroë Album N2. 29'.
Meroë: Meroitic Pottery
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- ReferenceGB 3431 JG/M/NA/29
- Former ReferenceGB 3431 N2.29GB 3431 M.885
- Dates of Creation[1913]
- Physical Description1 silver gelatine dry plate glass negative (126mm x 101mm)
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Separated Material
The vessel on the far right is now in the Louvre, Paris.
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The digital image is copyright of the University of Liverpool.
Bibliography
Published in Török, (1997), Meroë City, Vol. 2, pl.222, labelled 'from left to right: x-mm, x-nn, x-kk, x-ll, x-jj'. Full description of the objects can be found in Török, (1997), Meroë City, Vol. 1, p.261.