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Drinking Cup

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Description

Cup, geometric decoration. C-Group, ca. 1900–1550 B.C. Polished black ware with decoration filled with white pigment. h. 9 cm (3 9/16 in); diam. 14 cm (5 1/2 in). From: Cemetery 2, R, Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan). Excavation: University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia 1911–1912. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1913.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small bowl-like drinking cup with a wide rim and rounded body, decorated on the exterior with red-painted geometric bands and chevrons filled with lighter pigment.

The image shows a squat, hemispherical vessel with a flaring rim and a dark-looking body surface. The exterior is decorated with tightly arranged geometric motifs: alternating chevrons and stepped zigzags that form nested, fan-like and rectangular/chevron patterns around the bowl. The decoration appears as red pigment laid over the darker ground, with some light pigment/whitish filling in the incised or carved lines, giving the ornament crisp edges. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic text are visible; the decoration is purely geometric. The interior surface is less decorated in the provided view and appears plain compared to the exterior. The object is photographed against a neutral background with even studio lighting.

daily life C-Group (ground-truth from catalogue) good
Materials polished dark ware (black or dark brown/black)red pigment decoration (painted)light-colored pigment fill in carved/incised decoration

Connections

Found at Faras

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276248 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 13.125.27 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 560861 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.