Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

FOURTH CATARACT

SUDAN

APPENDIX
EGYPTIAN POTTERY FROM THE CEMETERY
AT EL-GAMAMIYA
Teodozja I. Rzeuska

The pottery assemblage from the Kerma-
Culture cemetery at El-Gamamiya has
yielded ceramics imported from Egypt: one

complete vessel and fragments of at least two
others. The vessel is a medium-sized globular
pot, the others are sherds from different jars.1

POT FROM EL-GAMAMIYA 19

A globular pot (GM19/2/07) was found
intact in the burial of a child (infans II)
excavated inside the tumulus tomb T.l (see
above, report on El-Gamamiya by
R Osypihski in this volume). The globular jar
with profiled rim and characteristic
hollowing on the inside (height 21 cm,
maximum body diameter 19.3 cm, rim
diameter 9.3 cm) was turned on the wheel
using clay classified as Marl A2 in the Vienna
classification system (Nordstrom and
Bourriau 1993). Body and rim were formed
separately and joined together in the neck
part, the seam still visible on the inside.
Exterior surface (5YR 5/6 yellowish red) is
polished [Fig. /].
The pot is a very typical representative of
what the author working on the pottery
material from Elephantine has termed as
Elephantine Pink Ware (Rzeuska 2009a).


Fig. 1 Globular pot GM19/2/07 from burial
T.l (Photo P. Osypmski)

1

The author has not had the opportunity to examine this material in person and has based her remarks on documentation,
written, drawn and photographed, made available by Dr. D. Bagihska.

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