General InformationThe fabric and treatment of the surface (the way the slip was applied) are very similar to the cooking vessels of the Late Period. This means that they are coarse, unlike the cooking vessels of the Roman period. The slip is a pale red which has a burnished appearance.
Description
This is a local red to yellow Kharga Oasis fabric. The fabric, when it is used for cooking vessels in the Ptolemaic period, is of medium texture with shale and mineral inclusions. It is fired very hard and dense with a kind of vitrification on the surface. This fabric is likely from the same kaolinitic geological formation recognized in Aswan.

Kharga Oasis (Egypt/Western desert)