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DOI Artikel:Klimaszewska-Drabot, Edyta; Obłuski, Artur: Excavations on Saffi island sites 7, 48 and 32. Preliminary report, 2004
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42090#0332
FOURTH CATARACT - SAFFI ISLAND
SUDAN
other 24 fragments of pottery (nine of which
belonged to the same vessel as the piece
from the pit) came from the mound above
the grave. This pot was a red bowl [Fig. 3:1]
with straight rim and slight constriction
below the rim, burnished on the exterior
and bearing characteristic traces of smoo-
thing of the interior surface with a rounded
tool. The bowl was rather deep and its form
referred to pottery of Middle Kerma date.3
The other sherds belonged to two other
vessels. One was a big, polished, slightly
carinated red bowl [Fig. 3/2] with black-
ened rim decorated with an exterior incised
pattern consisting of zigzags, combined
with vertical hatching above and below.
This ornament is very typical of Ancient
Kerma pottery4 with variants occurring in
Middle Kerma as well.5 The incomplet-
eness of the form incapacitates more precise
dating, as the basal shape of such bowls
was very different in Ancient Kerma6 and
Middle Kerma times.7
The other vessel proved to be a thin-
walled red bowl [Fig. 3:3] with some dark
spots (resulting from firing in a reduction
atmosphere) and exterior decorated with
infilled pattern of deeply incised lines. The
rim is visibly notched on top. Parallels of
Middle Kerma date have been noted among
the GAME expedition material collected
from the right bank of the Nile.8
Fig. 1. Plan and E-W cross-section through the tumulus grave on Saffi 7
(Drawing A. Obluski)
3 B. Privati, "La ceramique de la necropole orientale de Kerma (Soudan): essai de classification", CRIPEL 20 (1999), 46-48.
4 B. Gratien, Les Cultures Kerma. Essai de classification (Lille 1978), 149, Fig. 4l.J.
5 Privati 1999, 59, Fig. 11.8 ; 61, Fig. 12.11.
6 Ibid., 59, Fig. 4.10.
7 Ibid., 59, Fig. 10.8; B. Privati, "Le material ceramique associe aux edifices funeraires", in : Ch. Bonnet, Edifices et rites
funeraires a Kerma (Paris 2000), Fig. 129.11.
8 E. Kotosowska, Mahmoud El-Tayeb & H. Paner, "Old Kush in the Fourth Cataract Region," Sudan & Nubia 7 (2003),
22, Fig. 3a.
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SUDAN
other 24 fragments of pottery (nine of which
belonged to the same vessel as the piece
from the pit) came from the mound above
the grave. This pot was a red bowl [Fig. 3:1]
with straight rim and slight constriction
below the rim, burnished on the exterior
and bearing characteristic traces of smoo-
thing of the interior surface with a rounded
tool. The bowl was rather deep and its form
referred to pottery of Middle Kerma date.3
The other sherds belonged to two other
vessels. One was a big, polished, slightly
carinated red bowl [Fig. 3/2] with black-
ened rim decorated with an exterior incised
pattern consisting of zigzags, combined
with vertical hatching above and below.
This ornament is very typical of Ancient
Kerma pottery4 with variants occurring in
Middle Kerma as well.5 The incomplet-
eness of the form incapacitates more precise
dating, as the basal shape of such bowls
was very different in Ancient Kerma6 and
Middle Kerma times.7
The other vessel proved to be a thin-
walled red bowl [Fig. 3:3] with some dark
spots (resulting from firing in a reduction
atmosphere) and exterior decorated with
infilled pattern of deeply incised lines. The
rim is visibly notched on top. Parallels of
Middle Kerma date have been noted among
the GAME expedition material collected
from the right bank of the Nile.8
Fig. 1. Plan and E-W cross-section through the tumulus grave on Saffi 7
(Drawing A. Obluski)
3 B. Privati, "La ceramique de la necropole orientale de Kerma (Soudan): essai de classification", CRIPEL 20 (1999), 46-48.
4 B. Gratien, Les Cultures Kerma. Essai de classification (Lille 1978), 149, Fig. 4l.J.
5 Privati 1999, 59, Fig. 11.8 ; 61, Fig. 12.11.
6 Ibid., 59, Fig. 4.10.
7 Ibid., 59, Fig. 10.8; B. Privati, "Le material ceramique associe aux edifices funeraires", in : Ch. Bonnet, Edifices et rites
funeraires a Kerma (Paris 2000), Fig. 129.11.
8 E. Kotosowska, Mahmoud El-Tayeb & H. Paner, "Old Kush in the Fourth Cataract Region," Sudan & Nubia 7 (2003),
22, Fig. 3a.
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