Description (Physical description)
Faience fragment
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Acquisition Details)
Catalogue card reads: 'Faience fragments from Kerma. Egyptian XII and XIII Dynasties. 2000-1700 BC. DD Education Department Khartoum through John Crowfoot Esq.'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
Handwritten note found with 1924.879 A-C reads: 'Faience - Egyptian Cemetery Kerma 2000-1700 B.C.'.
Event Date 2/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
This sherd is illustrated in Reisner (1923, Vol. VI). The excavation number has now faded but can be seen with relative certainty in the photograph: 14-2-879. The other four numbers, also now faded, had not yet been applied when the photograph was taken.
Event Date 2/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Blue faience sherd of a round bottomed jar, possibly a situla, decorated with a floral design in black.
Event Date 2/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in faded black ink: '14-2-879' and a four number sequence similar to those marked on A and B, possibly '1388'.
Event Date 2/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Reisner, G.A. 1923. 'Faience Vessels'. Excavations at Kerma. Vol. VI (Part IV-V). Cambridge: Peabody Museum of Harvard University. pp. 153-170. Pl. 47 (Illustration 1, 4.8)
Event Date 2/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn