Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Fragment of a strainer
Nubian
Classic Kerma
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, Cemetery S, grave 2900
Medium/Technique
Pottery
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number20.5043
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThis is a semi-circular (just over half?) fragment of a strainer made of a red clay fabric that has fired mostly black. I may have been used as an insert in a vessel. Twenty holes are preserved.
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, Cemetery S, grave 2900. 1914: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of the Sudan.
(Accession Date: September 19, 2006)
(Accession Date: September 19, 2006)