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Black-topped bowl
Nubian
Early Kerma
2500–2200 B.C.
Object Place: Nubia, Kerma
Medium/Technique
Pottery
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 14.8 x 24.4 cm (5 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number21.11907
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThis round-bottomed bowl has a rim that is somewhat recurved. The blackened rim is further decorated by a zigzag line as well as finely incised hatching. (Sudan catalogue) Large red-polished, black-topped bowl with incised rim: a hatched band with single zigzag band within it. (Card)
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, Cemetery N, Tomb K 133 (a disturbed oval grave). April, 1916: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1921: assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.