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Aksamit, Joanna: Stone Vessels from Edfu in the National Museum in Warsaw
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Since the necropolis at Tell Edfu was abandoned at the beginning of the
18th Dynasty, stone vessels and other objects dated to the New Kingdom
appear only incidentally among the finds of the Franco-Polish expedition.
Two calcite kohl-pots can be dated to the early Eighteenth Dynasty because
of the context in which they were found (ill. 7).15 Remarkable through its
rarity among the finds from Edfu is a single fragment of a calcite tazze (a
kind of flat-bottomed dish usually placed on a separately-made tali footed
base, distinctive for its two to four horizontal ribs on the outside), the shape
occurring sińce the reign of Thutmose III until the time of Ramesses II (18th
- 19rh Dynasty).16
The chronological seąuence of the stone vessels from Edfu in the National
Museum ends with a group excavated in the area of the town, dated to the
Ptolemaic epoch or later. The majority of that group form fragmentarily
preserved bowls madę of hard dark stone, mostly granite. Worthy of notice
are two unfinished granite plates, with traces of tools still yisible on their
c
3. Vessels from the
tóasfaba of lzi
(Old Kingdom, 6'h Dynasty):
a. top of on offering tobie
(inv. no. 139963)
b. smali globular vessel
(140697)
c. cylindrical ointment jar
with a cortouche of Teti
on the lid (139962)
d. gneiss Meidum bowl
(139909)
The National Museum
Warsaw
(photo Z. Doliński)
surfaces.1 The ruins of the town yielded also a few calcite alabastra and a
smali round-bottomed beaker madę of spotted breccia.18
15 Inv. nos. 139336, 139337, see: Tell Edfou 1938/1, p. 47, nos. 104, 105, pl. XX, 6, 7, see
also notę 65 below.
16 Inv. no. 142230, unpublished. Cf. Egypt's Golden Age: The Art ofLwing in the New Kingdom
1558-1085 B.C., ed. by E. Brovarski, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1982, p. 129, no.
120; L.M. Berman, K.J. Bohać, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Egyptian Art,
Cleveland 1999, pp. 263-265, no. 188.
1 Inv. nos. 139910 (Alliot, Rapport 1932, p. 26, no. 3, pl. XXII) and 140654 (Tell Edfou 1939,
p. 182, no. 126, pl. XX, 48).
18 Inv. no. 139917, see: Tell Edfou 1939, p. 182, no. 124, pl. XX, 34.
18
18th Dynasty, stone vessels and other objects dated to the New Kingdom
appear only incidentally among the finds of the Franco-Polish expedition.
Two calcite kohl-pots can be dated to the early Eighteenth Dynasty because
of the context in which they were found (ill. 7).15 Remarkable through its
rarity among the finds from Edfu is a single fragment of a calcite tazze (a
kind of flat-bottomed dish usually placed on a separately-made tali footed
base, distinctive for its two to four horizontal ribs on the outside), the shape
occurring sińce the reign of Thutmose III until the time of Ramesses II (18th
- 19rh Dynasty).16
The chronological seąuence of the stone vessels from Edfu in the National
Museum ends with a group excavated in the area of the town, dated to the
Ptolemaic epoch or later. The majority of that group form fragmentarily
preserved bowls madę of hard dark stone, mostly granite. Worthy of notice
are two unfinished granite plates, with traces of tools still yisible on their
c
3. Vessels from the
tóasfaba of lzi
(Old Kingdom, 6'h Dynasty):
a. top of on offering tobie
(inv. no. 139963)
b. smali globular vessel
(140697)
c. cylindrical ointment jar
with a cortouche of Teti
on the lid (139962)
d. gneiss Meidum bowl
(139909)
The National Museum
Warsaw
(photo Z. Doliński)
surfaces.1 The ruins of the town yielded also a few calcite alabastra and a
smali round-bottomed beaker madę of spotted breccia.18
15 Inv. nos. 139336, 139337, see: Tell Edfou 1938/1, p. 47, nos. 104, 105, pl. XX, 6, 7, see
also notę 65 below.
16 Inv. no. 142230, unpublished. Cf. Egypt's Golden Age: The Art ofLwing in the New Kingdom
1558-1085 B.C., ed. by E. Brovarski, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1982, p. 129, no.
120; L.M. Berman, K.J. Bohać, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Egyptian Art,
Cleveland 1999, pp. 263-265, no. 188.
1 Inv. nos. 139910 (Alliot, Rapport 1932, p. 26, no. 3, pl. XXII) and 140654 (Tell Edfou 1939,
p. 182, no. 126, pl. XX, 48).
18 Inv. no. 139917, see: Tell Edfou 1939, p. 182, no. 124, pl. XX, 34.
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