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This is a painted cream-ware pottery bowl. It was reconstructed from fragments and has a rounded base, The interior was painted with brown vine stems and leaves. The exterior surface was painted with leaf motifs between parallel sets of lines. From cemetery 300 at Meroe, Sudan. Meroitic period, 300 BCE to 400 CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2016, March 23). Meroe Pottery Bowl. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/4755/meroe-pottery-bowl/
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