Quadruple Offering Vase

Unknown

ca. 2100–2010 BC · Pottery · 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 BC

Medium

Pottery

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Gift of James Douglas, 1890