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This ceramic pot is among a number of grave goods placed in the rich burial of a woman and child at Qurneh in Egypt, sometime in the 17th Dynasty. The woman may have been a queen.

The black and red pot has a large mouth and tapers at the base. It is pictured here upside down, to show the preserved netting on the bottom. Five similar pots were found in the burial, one of which also had netting. Originally all vessels were suspended in three nets, two pots in each net, from a branch.

A large number of pots of different fabrics and shapes were found in the burial. The finest pottery is a black-and-red type known as Kerma ware, after the capital of the Nubian land of Kush to the south of Egypt. Kerma ware is normally associated with the burials of Nubian soldiers serving in Egypt as mercenaries. Here it may indicate a Nubian ancestry of the woman or a high status import.

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• Online ID: 000-180-001-472-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1909.527.41 B
• Date: 2nd Intermediate Period: 17th Dynasty (around 1641 to 1539 BC)
  Middle Kingdom
  
• Material: Pan
  
• Dimensions: 4.00" H x 5.00" D
  
• What: Pan
  
• Subject: Vessels / Middle Kingdom
  
• Who: Professor W.M. Flinders Petrie (Excavator)
  
• Where: Ancient Egypt
  
• Event:
• Description: One of four red and black pottery pans, two with netting: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Kingdom
  
• References:
  • Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Qurneh. London: School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909. 
  • Qurneh / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. London, B.S.A.E. & B. Quaritch, 1909, 6 - 10 
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