dishes, fragments

Three greywacke (brown) fragments joined to form rim fragment of rectangluar dish with flattened base and sides and end curved up; exterior and interior decorated with longitudinal, parallel incised lines to imitate palm leaf basket with trace of cross binding in relief at one end; trace of lip (?) at inner rim break. From Abydos Umm el Qa'ab

Abydos

Umm el Qa'ab

1st Dynasty

LDUCE-UC36989

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology