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R ware dish: red-brown straight-sided dish with a flat base (slightly concave) and a flattened or beveled everted rim.
Provenance
From Mesaid tomb 47 [M/47/12]. 1910: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Egyptian, Predynastic Period, Naqada I–III, 3850–2960 B.C.
Findspot
Mesaid, Egypt
Dimensions
Overall: 5.5 x 17.8 cm (2 3/16 x 7 in.)
Accession Number
M/47/12
Medium or Technique
Pottery