Nile Silt Ptolemaic-Roman Bichrome Cooking Ware may be a product of Upper Egypt (Aswan?), based on parallels clustered in Upper Egypt, from Coptos to the Red Sea ports (Herbert and Berlin 2003, 29). A series of wide-mouthed cooking vessels, called stew pots at Coptos, appear in this ware, as well as the more narrow-mouthed cooking pot. At Coptos, this ware first appears in the late 2nd century BCE in the final Hellenistic ceramic assemblage.
Nile Silt Ptolemaic-Roman Bichrome Cooking Ware is made of a smooth, dense, and bright light red fabric with no visible inclusions. The upper exterior and interior rim is covered in a light wash that fires to a steel grey in color; it seems to have been applied with a rag or brush, since the lower edge is finished in a clean line. Vessels are fully fired.
