Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (13.2001(2002))

WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

version, the body becoming more ovoid
than globular, the bottom wider. The piece
from the West Saqqara necropolis,
recorded there for the first time, falls in the
very end of the sequence — it is definitely
the youngest such vessel known from
Egypt to date. R. Amiran has suggested

that they served as containers for oil
imported from Palestine.17)
Parallels include the following:
Palestine — Jericho, jug from tomb A (light
red, red burnished slip);18) Egypt — Giza
(seven jars),19) Dashur (tomb of Netjer-
aperef).20)

NEW KINGDOM

Single New Kingdom sherds have been
found in previous seasons, but never in a
closed context. The assemblage appeared in

the area north of the brick platform
excavated in 1999-21) Connections have
been found between the material discov-


Fig. 4. Fainted beer jar of New Kingdom date
(Drawing T. Rzeuska)

17) Amiran, op. cit., 66.
18) Amiran, op. cit., 75-77, pi. 20, no. 15.
19) Reisner's B-LII a: One-handled pitcher, no. 32-12-13, from mastaba G 2170 A, burnished red wash: Reisner, Giza I,
op. cit., fig. 274; Reisner, Giza II, op. cit., 74, fig. 95, pi. 53f.
20) Alexanian, Dahshur II, op. cit., 108-110, no. S. 45, Abb. 46, Tf. 20.
21) K. Mysliwiec, PAM XI, Reports 1999 (2000), 93-95, fig. 5.

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