Beaker

Description

Beaker of Kerma pottery, with the remains of textile wrapping around the mouth: Ancient Nubian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, Classic Kerma Period, 1585-1545 BC

Museum reference

A.1909.527.8

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Beaker

Production information

Unknown
Nubia, Sudan, Northern Africa

Date

Classic Kerma Period
17th Dynasty, 2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Nubian

Materials

Kerma pottery, Sand, fine, Mica, Straw, Textile

Collection place(s)

Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Treasured: Wonderful Things, Amazing Stories (14 Nov 2008 - 01 Jan 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Daughter of Re Hatshepsut King of Egypt (15 Oct 2005 - 10 Dec 2006)
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Kimbell Art Museum

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Qurneh / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. London, B.S.A.E. & B. Quaritch, 1909, 6 - 10

Arnold, Dorothea and Bourriau, Janine (eds), An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Pottery, Germany, 1993

Roehrig, C.H., Dreyfus, R., Keller, C.A., (eds.) Hatshepsut : From Queen to Pharaoh, 2005 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art), p.21, cat.5

On display

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