Bibliography on pottery in the Old Kingdom

Pottery in the Old Kingdom

There is as yet no comprehensive study published on the pottery in the Old Kingdom.

Kelly 1976: passim (a compilation of the pottery from different excavation reports, the book offers just the drawings of the pottery without further analysis)
Faltings 1998 (research on the use of some typical pottery types in iconography and archaeology of the Old Kingdom. The book concentrates on the pottery of daily use, and aims both to establish typologies and to identify the original use of different forms)
Jacquet-Gordon 1981 (a typology of bread moulds)

For further help are some excavation reports:

Reisner 1932: 75-98 (excavation report of the provincial cemetery of Naga-ed-Der; with analysis of the pottery found)
Kaiser 1969 (on the pottery found in the sun temple of king Userkaf, with typology of bowls)

On special groups of pottery

op de Beeck 2000 (on Meydum-bowls in the Old Kingdom: these are known as early as the First Dynasty, and early examples typically have the maximum diameter at the shoulder of the bowl; in the Fourth Dynasty the maximum diameter is situated at the rim; during the Sixth Dynasty the rim diameter is greater than the shoulder diameter)