General Information

In Ptolemaic times, pottery was made throughout the Nile Delta for the use of households in this region. While all producers used Nile silt as their chief medium, from west to east, and north to south, there seem to have been slightly different regimes of tempering and firing - as well, perhaps, as slightly different amounts of iron and other minerals, which may suggest regional ware family groupings.

For other regional productions in the Delta in Ptolemaic times, see Western Delta Ptolemaic Nile Silt Common Ware and Eastern Delta Ptolemaic Nile Silt Common Ware.

Nile silt with some golden mica, few little lime particles, some sand and organic inclusions. Break has a wide gray core. Clay red-brown (2.5YR5/3), slip cream-orangish, decoration with red-brown color. Moderately soft body due to the low firing temperature.

Tell Atrib (Egypt/Delta/Lower Egypt)