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Artefact ID1026
TM ID-
Findspot (DEChriM ID)25   (Aḫmīm)
ClassCooking/table/transport/storage ware
MaterialCeramic
Description

Bowl made of fine and dense clay on the turntable. On the inside bottom, an ichthys symbol is painted as part of an anchor. A drawing of this decoration, now faded and indistinct, was provided by R. Forrer (1907: fig. 78), while O. Wulff published a glass negative (Wolff 1911: 13).

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from300
Date to500
Dating criteria

Decoration

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Uncertain. The bowl was either acquired by Forrer in Egypt in 1894 (?) or excavated in Aḫmīm.

Accession number

Berlin, Staatliche Museen, MBK-Inv.-Nr. 6639

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Forrer, Robert. 1907. Reallexikon der prähistorischen, klassischen und frühchristlichen Altertümer. Berlin-Stuttgart: W. Spemann, p. 427 (pl. 109, 6), 812.

• El-Sayed, Rafed and Konstantin C. Lakomy. 2017. “Funde aus Aḫmīm-Panopolis in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin I. Spätantike Keramikgefäße im Museum für Byzantinische Kunst.” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 56: 64-65.

• Wulff, Oskar. 1911. Altchristliche und mittelalterliche byzantinische und italienische Bilddwerke. Teil II: Mittelalterliche Bildwerke, Königliche Museen zu Berlin, Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Vol. 3, Berlin: Verlag von Georg Reimer, p. 13 (no. 2279).

Authors
Victor Ghica, 2021
Suggested citation
Victor Ghica, 2021, "Artefact ID 1026", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1026
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