Amphora
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: University Of Chicago
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson
label: Site Name
content: Qustul
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Elongate globular body; low neck; thick wide lip. Red buff slip with two painted brown horizontal stripes near base, above center, at shoulder and at neck. Between are stylized palmette decorations with scrolls of foliage at top. Two low handles riveted upper body. Found in front of the mud-brick entrance to an intact tomb at Qustul, Nubia, five miles south of the temples of Abu Simbel. The grave was the burial place of a mature couple and contained, among other things, several iron implements, a cosmetic tube, a pair of scissors, an instrument decorated with a gazelle head, a finger ring with attached key, and two lead bowls, one of which bore in Greek letters the name Amonit Agoraos, probably the name of the owner. The grave was one of several thousand in the vast cemeteries excavated in 1962-1964 by the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition of the University of Chicago in the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. The style of decoration of the amphora and the personal name of the bowl point to a date in the third century A.D. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976. Loaned to Brooklyn Museum 8/16/78. Returned 2-7-80."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition OINE 8. Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 8: Meroitic Remains from Qustul Cemetery Q, Ballana Cemetery B, and a Ballana Settlement. Two volumes (Text, Plates). B. B. Williams, et. al. 1991. (publication is available online: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oine/onie-8-excavations-between-abu-simbel-and-sudan-frontier-part-8-meroitic). See Vol. 2, Appendix C Register of Finds in Cemetery Q, Table 31, p. 96, where this barrel jar is listed as Egyptian Fine/Ordinary jar I-O, bk. curvilinear vine and bands, Object # Q475-1, OIM # 21475, from Qustul Cemetery Q, Tomb Q475; it is also illustrated Plate 50a.
label: Notes
content: From 1978 NMNH slide set caption: "Ceramic amphora - painted with floral designs, two small handles, black-on-red, Meroitic, Qustul, Nubia, Egypt, 3rd Century, A.D.."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lower Nubia, Nubia, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Meroitic
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 266868
label: USNM Number
content: A448235-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Amphora