Vessel: Tell el-Murra, G7-VC-4

Context Information

Tell el-Murra

29th century BCE

Settlement with cemetery

Egypt/Delta

1st Dynasty

Grave 7

Vessel Details

Beer jar

E2: less slender, wide shoulders, flat base

Nile clay, with fine to medium large straw particles and fine to medium quantity sand, rounded quartz

Maximum diameter: 23, Rim diameter: 10

Burial/Grave Gift, Transport/Storage

Roughly smoothed

Hand made

Probably post-deposition and/or a burning/firing process

Vessel Images  1


Beer jar
Tell el-Murra
29th century BCE
1st Dynasty

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Thin Section Photos  0

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