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Black topped pottery vessel. Predynastic, Naqada II (3500-3100 BC). The Naqada Period is named after the type site in Upper Egypt, just north of Thebes. 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). Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1923. This particular example comes from the Berens collection. Randolph Humphery Berens, née McLaughlin (1844-1922) took the name Berens on his marriage in 1877 with Eleanor Frances. Both collected Egyptian antiquities. His collection was sold in Sotheby's on 18th June 1923. His wife's collection was sold on 29th July 1923 and 31st July 1923 (Bierbrier 1995, 42-43). As this item was sold on 18th June it must have belonged to Randolph Berens.
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