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DOI Artikel:Rzeuska, Teodozja I.: The pottery, 2002
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WEST SAQQARA
EGYPT
THE POTTERY, 2002
Teodozja Izabela Rzeuska
OLD KINGDOM NECROPOLIS
The ceramic assemblage^ from the three
complexes explored this season, i.e., shaft
54u and the rock-cut funerary chapels 13
and 14, was mixed, the structures having
been robbed at least once. The last time this
happened was in medieval times as
indicated by a lamp SQ 02-1111, Fustat
type I2) {Fig. 1), which was discovered on
the surface of the fill just next to the
passage joining the two chapels. It is an
Egyptian-made long-nozzle lamp with one
nibbed handle and characteristic concave
foot with incised ring inside, the surface
glazed with thin turquoise glaze with dark
green “dripping” on the lower part. The
lamp had been used: There were traces of
burning on it and inside it some burnt
remains and knot: This type of lamp was in
use from the second half of the 12th
century and was produced through the
14th and even 15 th century.The robbers
must have operated sometime during this
period, throwing out the content of shaft
54 and quarrying through the rock to
chapel 13; consequently, they obliterated
all traces of earlier robbing. The fill in the
shafts of both chapels was disturbed and the
contents mixed, so that parts of one and the
*) Mr. Henk Jan Top's assistance in documenting the pottery assemblage is gratefully acknowledged. All the drawings are
by the author and Mr. H.J. Top, the inkings are by K. Orzechowska. The drawings are not to scale.
1) Cf. contribution by K. Mysliwiec in this volume. Shaft 54 had been explored in 1986 and the pottery from it studied
in 2001. Cf. K. Mysliwiec, T. Herbich, with contribution by A. Niwinski, EtTrav XVII (1995), 177-203.
2) W. Kubiak, "Medieval Ceramic Oil Lamps from Fustat", in: Ars Orientalis. The Arts of Islam and the East, vol. 8, Freer
Gallery of Art (Michigan 1970), 13-15, figs. 10-11, Text figs. 12-13.1 am grateful to Dr. Malgorzata Redlak of the National
Museum in Warsaw for this information.
3) Loc. cit.
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EGYPT
THE POTTERY, 2002
Teodozja Izabela Rzeuska
OLD KINGDOM NECROPOLIS
The ceramic assemblage^ from the three
complexes explored this season, i.e., shaft
54u and the rock-cut funerary chapels 13
and 14, was mixed, the structures having
been robbed at least once. The last time this
happened was in medieval times as
indicated by a lamp SQ 02-1111, Fustat
type I2) {Fig. 1), which was discovered on
the surface of the fill just next to the
passage joining the two chapels. It is an
Egyptian-made long-nozzle lamp with one
nibbed handle and characteristic concave
foot with incised ring inside, the surface
glazed with thin turquoise glaze with dark
green “dripping” on the lower part. The
lamp had been used: There were traces of
burning on it and inside it some burnt
remains and knot: This type of lamp was in
use from the second half of the 12th
century and was produced through the
14th and even 15 th century.The robbers
must have operated sometime during this
period, throwing out the content of shaft
54 and quarrying through the rock to
chapel 13; consequently, they obliterated
all traces of earlier robbing. The fill in the
shafts of both chapels was disturbed and the
contents mixed, so that parts of one and the
*) Mr. Henk Jan Top's assistance in documenting the pottery assemblage is gratefully acknowledged. All the drawings are
by the author and Mr. H.J. Top, the inkings are by K. Orzechowska. The drawings are not to scale.
1) Cf. contribution by K. Mysliwiec in this volume. Shaft 54 had been explored in 1986 and the pottery from it studied
in 2001. Cf. K. Mysliwiec, T. Herbich, with contribution by A. Niwinski, EtTrav XVII (1995), 177-203.
2) W. Kubiak, "Medieval Ceramic Oil Lamps from Fustat", in: Ars Orientalis. The Arts of Islam and the East, vol. 8, Freer
Gallery of Art (Michigan 1970), 13-15, figs. 10-11, Text figs. 12-13.1 am grateful to Dr. Malgorzata Redlak of the National
Museum in Warsaw for this information.
3) Loc. cit.
144