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FOURTH CATARACT - ULI ISLAND

SUDAN

been quite common among the grave of-
ferings.
Another vessel of interest is a wheel-
made hemispherical red-slipped bowl with
two grooves below the rim [Fig. 7:4}. It
could be of Napatan date, but the dating is
not all that clear. The style of decoration is
known from the Kerma site, where it ap-
pears to have been popular, hemispherical or
cylindrical bowls bearing from one to six
or more grooves under the rim.22 A similar
bowl was found in Soniyat temple, where it
was dated to the Napatan period.23
Coming also from this cemetery is an
Egyptian amphora [Fig. 8} of a type that


Fig. 8. Egyptian amphora U23.T4.3
(Photo W. Godlewski)

started being produced locally in Egypt
during the New Kingdom, when it became
quite common. Earlier vessels of this kind
had been imported from the Levant, and
then produced only in the Delta.24 The pot
from grave 4 was made of Nile silt and
given a cream coating. It is 30 cm high and
features an elongated neck and vertical
handles. It resembles Hope's type lc, dated
to the 18th Dynasty (reign of Amenhotep
II) and 19th Dynasty or a little later.25
SHERDS
Incised sherds evidently of Kerma tradition
included a big open hemispherical bowl


Fig. 9- Sherds of hemispherical open bowl in the
Kerma tradition from Uli 23 cemetery
(U23.T10.1) (Photo W. Godlewski)

22 Salah el-Din M. Ahmed, L'agglomeration napatenne de Kerma (Paris 1992), Fig.20, 25, 26.
23 M. Orzechowska, "Preliminary Report on the Pottery from the Soniyat Temple", in: B. Zurawski, Survey and
Excavations between Old Dongola and Ez-Zuma, Southern Dongola Reach Survey 1, Nubia II (Warsaw 2003), PI. 4.f.
24 C.A. Hope, Pottery of the Egyptian New Kingdom: Three Studies, Victoria College Archaeology Research Unit,
Occasional Paper No. 2 (Victoria 1989), 87.
25 Ibid., 95-96.

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