12019-05-13T17:47:40-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332304This small vessel is a model of a larger one and was intended for a funerary setting, probably of a modest person who could not afford full-sized accompaniments. With a rim opening only large enough to barely fit one finger inside, it is evidently too small to contain any liquids or food. Its hand-built construction is evident by the unbalanced base and thickly textured walls. That this object was neither thrown nor coiled suggests its early creation by a potter in Pre-dynastic Egypt.plain2019-05-14T23:29:31-07:00Excavated for the Egypt Exploration Fund during a 1906 to 1909 expedition; sent to Timothy Hopkins, who donated it to Stanford in 1911Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12