Net-painted cylinder vase

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EGYPT, RODAH, KHOZAM

Date de l’œuvre libre
circa 3500-3100 B.C.
Egypte, vase à colerette peint en filet, vers 3500-3100 avant J.-C.
Egypte,
Vase à colerette peint en filet, Fin de Nagada II ou Nagada III.
Image © Lyon MBA - Photo Alain Basset
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This cylinder vase is typical of the ceramics produced at the end of the Protohistoric period in Egypt. In the 4th millennium B.C., improved living conditions resulted in a new civilisation developing on the banks of the Nile. It was called Naqada culture, a name taken from a site in Upper Egypt where a vast cemetery from this era was discovered.

 

Craftsmanship was of very high quality, especially as we can still see it nowadays in the terracotta vases made with a wide variety of forms and decoration. Most of them were found in tombs and contained food or drinks for the afterlife. This vessel has a cylindrical body with a flat base and a rolled lip. The upper part of the surface is decorated with a wavy line, slightly embossed, that serves as a handle. The criss-crossed motif painted on the reddish-brown clay is probably based on the net bags that were used to carry goods. The shape, which may be of Palestinian origin, went on to be very popular: the same form can still be found in stone vases from the era of the first pharaohs.

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Description de l’œuvre

Egypt, Rodah, Khozam
Late Naqada II or Naqada III, circa 3500-3100 B.C.
Painted ceramic
H. 21.8; D. 10.3 cm
Acquired in 1969