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Black-Topped Beaker

4500–3000 BCE

Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada I–IIb

(3900–3300 BCE)
Medium
Nile silt pottery
Measurements
Diameter: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.); Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.2005
Public Domain
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Location
107 Egyptian
Print

Description

Red polished vessels with black rims (known as black-topped red ware or B-ware) were the most common funerary pottery during the early Predynastic Period. The characteristic blackening of the rim was probably achieved by burying the mouth of the pot in the ashes of the kiln. The iron in the exposed part would then fire red while the covered area turned black.

Black-Topped Beaker

4500–3000 BCE

Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada I–IIb (3900–3300 BCE)

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