Black-topped Pot, between 3800 and 3400 BCE

  • Egyptian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 8 7/8 × 6 7/8 inches (22.5 × 17.5 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900

1990.51

Inscribed, scratched on bottom: R [or B] 105

probably 1898-99, probably excavated from cemetery R (Hu, Egypt) or cemetery B (Abadiyeh, Egypt)

1900, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund

1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Petrie, W.M.F. Hu and Diospolis Parva. London, 1901, pl. XLIII [left fragment in second register (nb: the site is discussed, but the piece is only illustrated)]. Peck, W. "A Newly Discovered Example of Decorated Pre-Dynastic Pottery in the Detroit Institute of Arts, " Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 4 (1976-77): p. 216-218, repro.

Egyptian, Black-topped Pot, between 3800 and 3400 BCE, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900, 1990.51.