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Decorated pottery vase, Coptic or Meriotic. 245mm high. For information on Coptic ceramics see Alexander Badawy 'Coptic Art and Archaeology. The Art of the Christian Egyptians from the Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages'. 1978, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology p 305-314. For information on Meroitic ware see Janine Bourriau 'Umm El Gabb. Pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest' 1981 p 104ff,
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Title: vessel, pottery, vase
Description:
Decorated pottery vase, Coptic or Meriotic.
245mm high.
For information on Coptic ceramics see Alexander Badawy 'Coptic Art and Archaeology.
The Art of the Christian Egyptians from the Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages'.
1978, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology p 305-314.
For information on Meroitic ware see Janine Bourriau 'Umm El Gabb.
Pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest' 1981 p 104ff,.
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