Egypt/Upper Egypt
Roman
Dining/Drinking/Serving
The matrix is ferruginous to slightly kaolinitic with a moderate optical activity. 15% inclusions, low porosity. Main inclusions comprise quartz (can be rounded), K-feldspars, sporadic shale fragments (reddish), while the fine fraction is constituted by plagioclase, clinopyroxenes, hornblende, few muscovite micas and volcanic rock fragments (basalt). This is a secondary kaolinitic clay, possibly mined from an area adjacent to the Nile river stream as indicated by the fine fraction that resembles the composition of Nile sediments.
IFAO 5464
2nd century BCE - 3rd century CE
Hellenistic/Ptolemaic, Roman
