vessel, pottery

Black topped pottery vessel. Red exterior, black interior. Hatched burnished decoration on base. Predynastic, Naqada I (4000-3500 BC). The Naqada Period is named after the type site in Upper Egypt, just north of Thebes. Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1920. Black topped red ware is a fine red pottery with blackened rim. How such vessels were decorated has been much debated. (See Hendrickx, S.,…