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An Egyptian Nile silt fish vessel

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7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
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An Egyptian Nile silt fish vessel
Predynastic Period, Naqada IIC-IID2, circa 3650-3300 B.C.
In the form of a Bolti (Tilapia) fish, the ovoid body with two vertical lug handles either side of the central rim, applied discs forming the eyes and raised gills below, with a flat base, 26.5cm long

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Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection.
With Archea, Amsterdam, 24 August 1998.
J. Janette Walen Collection (d.1952), Amsterdam, formed 1900-1940, thence by descent.

Exhibited:
San Bernardino, Robert V. Fullerton Museum of Art, Predynastic Egyptian Pottery, 22 September 2005 - 18 February 2006.

Published:
J.D. Kaplan, Predynastic Egyptian Pottery, San Bernardino, 2005, no. 32, pp. 78-81. Kaplan says that this is 'an example of the rare zoomorphic pots made in Predynastic Egypt' and 'probably served a special function'. The Tilapia was an important symbol in the Predynastic period with connotations of fertility and rebirth.

For a related example in the Ashmolean, cf. J. Crowfoot-Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1993, p. 22, fig. 16, no. 69.

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