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Meroitic (Nubian) painted pottery vase

The body from a red slip ware pottery vase with a single spout and a handle to the back. The upper body is painted in white and black with a repeating band of flowers drawn in a characteristically free-hand style.

A rare example of Meroitic pottery from the great African gold-trading civilization centred around modern Nubia.

Nubia, Meroe, 3rd Century AD

Size: 13 x 13.2 cms

Fragment as shown