Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink, now much faded: '1830' or '830'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other owners)
Collected by the Griffith Collection.
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: '98.69. Handmade pottery of a pre dynastic people of Lybian type. Burial place at Negada, Upper Egypt. 1894-95 Flinders Petrie. Presd by Miss Griffith 1898'
Typed label affixed to object reads: '1'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Flinders Petrie during the 1894-1895 season and found in Grave 1830 or 830.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Petrie, W.M. and J.E. Quibell. (1896). Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Bernard Quaritch: London.
Event Date 1896
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Pottery Black Topped Red Open Bowl, Pot.
Event Date 1898
Author: maa

Context (Other)
The accession register notes (for 1898.69-75): 'Found in a burial place of a pre-dynastic people of Lybian [?] type, at Negada, Upper Egypt by Prof. Flinders Petrie, 1894-95.' It goes on to note that '"Three of the specimens are of the "black topped ware" and 3 "pebble polished" F.W. Green"
Event Date 1898
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Baumgartel, E.J. 1970. Petrie's Naqada Excavation: A Supplement. Bernard Quaritch Ltd: London. p. XXXI or LIX (Tomb 830 or 1830).
Event Date 1970
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
A handwritten note found with 1898.69 and 1898.73, but referring to the larger Griffith donation, reads: 'Specimens of hand made pottery with polished surface, found in the cemetery of a pre-dynastic people of Libyan type, at Negada, Upper Egypt by Professor Flinders Petrie, 1894-95. Rise of 1st dyn: Meyer's [unclear] 3,200 circa, Petrie's [unclear] 4,800 [circa]'. Von Hügel added to this note, 'Pres.d by Miss Griffith, 1898' as well as '98.69-74' and '6 [specimens]'. In a still later hand, someone added '7 specimens'.
Event Date 16/5/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Amendments / updates)
There is considerable confusion about the size of the Griffith donation of pottery vessels from Petrie's 1894-1895 Naqada excavations. The Annual Report entry gives the number as eight; the Accession Register assigns seven idnos (1898.69-75) but in the description notes that there are 'six specimens in all'; and the handwritten note summarising the donation (found with some of the vessels) originally gave no number, then was modified to read '6 specimens' and then later amended to read '7 specimens'. Part of the confusion may be explained by another vessel from the Griffith donation being accessioned later in 1898 (1898.538/Record 1), rather than with the first batch, which could somewhat account for the disagreement over total numbers. Currently 1898.71, 1898.74 and 1898.75 (if it exists) have not been identified, and may have been reaccessioned as Z numbers. Until they are identified, the total number of vessels from the Griffith donation of Naqada material is uncertain.
Event Date 16/5/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Black topped red ware bowl, pointed rim on flared body with small flat base. Surfaces smoothed, interior surface black and burnished, material red brown in colour, small stoney inclusions.
Event Date 11/6/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck