Predynastic D- Ware Vessel Showing Boat

3D Model

RAFFMA, EG.01.002.2020

Predynastic pots like this of the decorated - ware type preserve some of the first pictures drawn from Ancient Egypt of life along the Nile. These frequently show long boats with rows of oars, cabins, and sacred emblems. The meaning of these images is not clear and perhaps had multiple associations. But interestingly archaeologists have found these kinds of pots predominantly in tombs and not houses. And so they may have had something to do with early ideas of the journey beyond death.

This vessel is of ovoid form painted in reddish brown with a many-oared boat on each side, a palm branch at the prow, two cabins on the deck, lines indicating water(?) below, fan shapes and “s” under the handles, and concentric wavy lines on the base. The images on this vessel represent important social or religious events, the precise significance of which is not perfectly understood.

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