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Offering dish/lid fragments (and others)
Nubian
Classic Kerma
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Kerma
Medium/Technique
Pottery
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number20.4722
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThis group of fragments contains portions (including one large) of a small offering dish/lid of somewhat coarse, light brownish-red clay. Other fragments of similar ware, but not seemingly from this dish, are also present.
ProvenanceFrom Kerma. 1913: 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: August 30, 2006)
(Accession date: August 30, 2006)