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Egyptian Pottery Basket, Ptolemaic to Roman Period, 330 BC-395 AD

Egyptian pottery basket with slightly flattened base. The outside with impressed decoration to look like a stylized flower.

For an undecorated example in the Petrie Museum cf. museum no. UC19322.

Intact, except for a few chips out of the rim. Remains of white pigment inside the cavities.

D. 6.2 cm (2.4 in)
H. 4 cm (1.6 in)

Swiss private collection

260 USD