This coarse handmade ware is rich with chaff inclusions and was used almost exclusively to create large vessels with very thick walls. Potters used this process of production for basic, utilitarian vessels, including bread molds, bread disks or trays, large basins and lids, and occasionally pithoi. Potters made this ware by hand using the coiling technique; some of the bread molds excavated at Amheida even have finger impressions left on the surface. This ware is attested in Egypt since the Old Kingdom; vessels manufactured in post-Pharaonic times appear in the same shapes and according to the same manufacturing technique.
Chaff-tempered Handmade Ware vessels are thick-walled and generally not fully fired, leaving a medium-wide yellow brown core. Chaff-tempered Handmade Ware was made with locally available clays, either Nile Silt or, in the western oases, a coarse ferruginous clay with sand and limestone inclusions. It was heavily tempered with chaff, as well as lime and small rounded black and grey inclusions. It is fired reddish to brown to gray/black, and there were often finger impressions left on the ba...
Abu Rahal, Abu Rahal Hill (Egypt/Eastern desert/Red Sea Coast)
Amheida (Egypt/Western desert)
Egypt/Western desert
Egypt/Delta/Lower Egypt
