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| Keywords: Wallpaper group-pmg-4.jpg This image was copied from wikipedia en The original description was Computer-enhanced photograph of a bowl on display in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston item number 13 5083 illustrating Wallpaper group pmg According to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston this bowl is from Kerma around 1700-1550 B C The Museum of Fine Arts Boston states about this object Fired Clay Kerma Eastern Deffufa K I 1700 “1550 BC Classic Kerma Period Harvard University “Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition 13 5083 The running-spiral design on this pot is reminiscent of motifs used on pottery and other objects in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean during the mid-2nd millennium BC Its closest parallels however are to Egyptian pots of the Second Intermediate Period 1700 “1550 BC Yet the vessel was clearly made in Nubia using Nile clay and Nubian forming and firing techniques It suggests greater Nubian knowledge of Egyptian material culture during this period perhaps derived at least as much from spoils of war as from trade An undecipherable inscription incised on the vessel may represent a local potter ™s effort to imitate Egyptian hieroglyphic signs or it may be an attempt to spell a name or word in the language of Kush http //isaw nyu edu/exhibitions/nubia/highlights html 1 date/time username resolution size edit summary ---- 23 39 11 March 2006 Dmharvey 1894Ă—1650 314 KB <nowiki>Computer-enhanced photograph of a bowl on display in the <a href /wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts 2C_Boston title Museum of Fine Arts Boston >Museum of Fine Arts Boston</a> item number 13 5083 illustrating <a href /wiki/Wallpaper_group title Wallpaper group >wallpaper group</a> pmg According to the MFA this bowl is from <a href /wiki/Kingdom_of_Kerma title Kingdom of Kerma >Kerma</a> around 1700-1550 B C and the run</nowiki> Kerma Wallpaper group pmg Spiral ornaments Ceramic bowls Spirals in Ancient pottery | ||||
