Dish with a folded rim

First Intermediate Period

ca. 2100–2010 B.C.

Not on view

This dish of Nile clay covered all over with a red pigment has a rim folded inwards in five places. Stone dishes with inward-folded rims appear as early as the First Dynasty and would seem to derive from pottery prototypes, though examples in pottery are very rare before the First Intermediate Period. This vessel was excavated in 1920-21 from a grave at Sedment and was perhaps intended to represent a special dish in the funerary meal.

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Title: Dish with a folded rim
Period: First Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 9–10
Date: ca. 2100–2010 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Fayum Entrance Area, Sidmant el-Gebel (Sedment), BSAE excavations, 1920–21
Medium: Pottery, hematite wash
Dimensions: Diam. 16 cm
Credit Line: Gift of British School of Archaeology, 1921
Object Number: 21.10.25
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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