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TELL EL-RETABA

EGYPT

internal surface. The vessel can be attributed
to the late New Kingdom (Tell Daba,
cf. Aston 1996: 143, Fig. 41:5), the Twenty-
first- Twenty-second Dynasties (Aston
1996: 24, 133, Fig. 31:308) or the Late
Period (Bavay 1998: 323, 26, Fig. 35:48;
French 1996: 9, 11, Fig. 1, Type 2).
The jar made of NB2 sandy clay and
covered with pinkish coat [Fig. 2:5) is dated
to the Twentieth-Twenty-first Dynasty
(Aston 1996: 26,143, Fig. 41:5).
Hole-mouth jars [Fig. 2:6-7\ are very
common in Retaba. Many of them were
found during a survey conducted by the

Wadi Tumilat Project directed by
John S. Holladay Jr. (Redmount 1989:
394-395, Fig. 54:268-284). Those vessels
are always made of Nile clay tempered with
sand. Their surface is either white/pink
coated [Fig 2:7) or only smoothed without
additional slip [Fig 2:6). The pots presented
here can be dated to the Third Intermediate
Period (Hummel, Shubert 1994: 9-10,
Figs 3-4) [Fig. 2:6) and the Late Period
(Bavay 1998: 325-326, Fig. 35:56) [Fig 2:7).
A small fragment of a pilgrim flask made
of Nile B2 clay [Fig 2:8) with a smoothed
surface was also collected. The handle placed


Fig 3. Late New Kingdom-Third Intermediate Period bowls
(DrawingA. Wodzinska)

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