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Lid shaped from a vessel fragment
Nubian
Classic Kerma
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, Cemetery S, grave 1802
Medium/Technique
Pottery
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number20.5004
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThis is a poorly shaped, roughly circular lid (or, less likely, a token) fashioned from a fragment of a blackened redware pottery vessel. There are traces of red polish. It has a slight concavity due to the portion of the original vessel from which the source fragment broke off. It may have been used for an offering/model vessel. There is a hole drilled partially through one side as well as some small craters/pocks in the same side.
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, Cemetery S, grave 1802. 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 18, 2006)
(Accession Date: September 18, 2006)