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c. Type R. W. VII (continued).

Fig. 287, Nos. 23-25
Type R. W.
Distribution of examples
23.
VII-10
KXVIC:54.
tK XIX: xf.
24.
VII-4
fK XVIII B:30f.
25.
VII-6
|K XVIII B:xf.
VH-gen.
KXVIC:xix.

Total — 2.

These small pots were often surrounded by wide-meshed string nets or by closely woven
bead nets. The material of which the pot consisted was a well levigated and wet-smoothed
red or pinkish ware, almost a paste in some examples. They were all wheel-made.1
The distribution at Kerma was as follows:

Tumulus Examples
KIVB 1
KXB 1
K X, grave 1
K X, total 2
K XVI C 4
K XVI, graves 7
K XVI, total 11
K XVIII B 4
K XIX 2
K Cem. B, graves 2

Form No.
(15)
(16)
(17)
(20, 23)
(16, 18, 19, 21, 22)
(20, 21, 24, 25)
(22, 23)
(20, 22)

Thus the greater part of the examples occur in K XVI, K XVIII, and K XIX. In ad-
dition to these examples, in 1915 a number were found in the adjacent mixed Egypto-
Nubian Cemetery (K Cem. B), and one or two in the Nubian Cem. K M, but none to the
north of that.

d. Type R. W. IV, medium sized bulging jars.

Fig. 288, Nos. 26-32
Type R. W.
Distribution of examples
26.
IV-1
K 1089:2.
tK XVIII B:9f.
Total —
2.
27.
IV-2
tK 1611: xf.
28.
IV-7
tK XVIII B:4f.
K XX A: 15.
Total —
2.
29.
IV-6
tK XVIII B:22f.
30.
IV-4
K 3502:3.
tK B 28: If.
Total —
-2.
31.
IV-5
tK 3502: If.
32.
IV-3
tKB 34: 16f.

These round-bottomed bulging jars are of a good but not a fine red ware, wheel-made
and well smoothed. A few examples (IV-5) appeared to have received a thin red wash.
No. 29 has a very small flat base, not in the least stable. The same jar is to be seen in
1 A similar form is shown by Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, Pl. XXV, nos. 1—3, dated there to Dynasties XIII-XVI;
but the ware is not described.