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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
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)