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DOI Artikel:Klimaszewska-Drabot, Edyta: Neolithic to napatan pottery from Uli island preliminary report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42090#0370
FOURTH CATARACT - ULI ISLAND
SUDAN
The Napatan examples, however, look more
coarse, and the deep bowls from Uli 23
could actually by earlier products, which
emerged when reminiscences of the Kerma
tradition appeared.
Wheel-made sherds, which are a more
abundant class in the collection, included
a red-slipped beaker [Fig. 10:4], burnished
inside and out, which can be compared
with examples from the pottery workshop
in Kerma27 or with finds from the Qustul
cemeteries.28
A few sherds of storage containers coated
with a thin cream wash [Fig. 9:6,7] are
doubtless of Napatan date. Similar pieces
were found in the Usli temple.29 Storage
jars of Nile silt, difficult to date due to the
fragmentariness of the sherds, were also re-
presented {e.g. Fig. 9:5]. Vessels of this
kind appeared during the New Kingdom,30
but were also found in 25 th Dynasty
contexts at El-Kurru31 and Amarna South
(tombs dated to or around the 25th Dy-
nasty).32
SUMMARY
While further study of the ceramic
assemblage from Uli Island is in order, the
present preliminary presentation of
selected issues and examples of pottery
demonstrates an inherent similarity of the
material to what other archaeological
expeditions have already collected on the
Fourth Cataract. Neither does it depart
significantly from the picture of pottery
production that is available for areas
upriver and downriver from this region.
Further studies of the Uli Island material
in confrontation with the growing body of
published evidence from other work in the
region should provide the grounds for
a more detailed analysis.
27 Salah el-Din M. Ahmed, op. cit., Fig. 26.
28 Williams, op. cit., 8, Fig. 2:20.
29 J. Phillips, "An overview of the ceramics", in: Zurawski, Survey Ez-Zuma, op. cit., 399, PI. l4.a.
30 Hope, op. cit., Fig. I*.i.
31 L.A. Heindorn, "Preliminary analysis of selected vessels from the earliest tombs at El-Kurru (Generations A-F)",
Seventh International Conference for Meroitic Studies (Berlin 1992), Fig. 3a.
32 D.A. Aston, "Egyptian pottery of the Late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (twelfth-seventh centuries
BC). Tentative footsteps in a forbidding terrain", Studien ziir Archaologie und Geschichte Altdgyptensli (Heidelberg 1996),
Fig. 119-SJ6 4.3 (L).
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SUDAN
The Napatan examples, however, look more
coarse, and the deep bowls from Uli 23
could actually by earlier products, which
emerged when reminiscences of the Kerma
tradition appeared.
Wheel-made sherds, which are a more
abundant class in the collection, included
a red-slipped beaker [Fig. 10:4], burnished
inside and out, which can be compared
with examples from the pottery workshop
in Kerma27 or with finds from the Qustul
cemeteries.28
A few sherds of storage containers coated
with a thin cream wash [Fig. 9:6,7] are
doubtless of Napatan date. Similar pieces
were found in the Usli temple.29 Storage
jars of Nile silt, difficult to date due to the
fragmentariness of the sherds, were also re-
presented {e.g. Fig. 9:5]. Vessels of this
kind appeared during the New Kingdom,30
but were also found in 25 th Dynasty
contexts at El-Kurru31 and Amarna South
(tombs dated to or around the 25th Dy-
nasty).32
SUMMARY
While further study of the ceramic
assemblage from Uli Island is in order, the
present preliminary presentation of
selected issues and examples of pottery
demonstrates an inherent similarity of the
material to what other archaeological
expeditions have already collected on the
Fourth Cataract. Neither does it depart
significantly from the picture of pottery
production that is available for areas
upriver and downriver from this region.
Further studies of the Uli Island material
in confrontation with the growing body of
published evidence from other work in the
region should provide the grounds for
a more detailed analysis.
27 Salah el-Din M. Ahmed, op. cit., Fig. 26.
28 Williams, op. cit., 8, Fig. 2:20.
29 J. Phillips, "An overview of the ceramics", in: Zurawski, Survey Ez-Zuma, op. cit., 399, PI. l4.a.
30 Hope, op. cit., Fig. I*.i.
31 L.A. Heindorn, "Preliminary analysis of selected vessels from the earliest tombs at El-Kurru (Generations A-F)",
Seventh International Conference for Meroitic Studies (Berlin 1992), Fig. 3a.
32 D.A. Aston, "Egyptian pottery of the Late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (twelfth-seventh centuries
BC). Tentative footsteps in a forbidding terrain", Studien ziir Archaologie und Geschichte Altdgyptensli (Heidelberg 1996),
Fig. 119-SJ6 4.3 (L).
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