Black topped red ware. Flat base. Naqada II-III. The Naqada Period is named after the type site in Upper Egypt, just north of Thebes. 17.5cm high. Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1923. Black topped red ware is a fine red pottery with blackened rim. How such vessels were decorated has been much debated. (See Hendrickx, S., Friedman, R. and Loyens, F. 2000. Experimental Archaeology concerning Black-topped red war from Ancient Egypt and the Sudan. 'Cahiers de le Ceramique Egyptienne' 6, 171-185; Smythe, J. 2005 Monuments in Mud, 'Nekhen News' 17, 21-23).
