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)
Pottery in Egypt
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