Dish with a folded rim

Unknown

ca. 2100–2010 B.C. · Pottery, hematite wash · Egyptian Art

This dish of Nile clay covered all over with a red pigment has a rim folded inwards in five places. Stone dishes with inward-folded rims appear as early as the First Dynasty and would seem to derive from pottery prototypes, though examples in pottery are very rare before the First Intermediate Period. This vessel was excavated in 1920-21 from a grave at Sedment and was perhaps intended to represent a special dish in the funerary meal.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 2100–2010 B.C.

Medium

Pottery, hematite wash

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Gift of British School of Archaeology, 1921