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Pottery in the Late Period

Main types (the precise dating is often unknown, some of the pieces might belong to the Third Intermediate Period others already the period of the first Persian domination.

large storage jars; many have been found next to burials containg embalming material; they are also common in settlement context.
UC 19221 UC 16791

jars

bowls

Bes vases (probably the Late Period, see Aston 1996: 82)

fragments of Archaic Greek pottery in the Petrie Museum, provenance unknown.
UC 65103

 

Aston 1995 (pottery found at Elephantine)


 

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