General Information

This ware is used for the production of cooking vessels at Kharga in the Roman period. The fabric is more fine that that of Late Period or Ptolemaic period. The slip, like the Ptolemaic cooking ware is red, but it is darker in color.

This is a local red to yellow Kharga Oasis fabric. The fabric, when it is used for cooking vessels in the Roman period, is of fine/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)