Wavy-Handled and Cylindrical Jars in the Nile Delta a View from Tell el-Farkha
Jucha, Mariusz A. (Kraków)
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, Vol. 12, Kraków (2008)
Abstract
Petrie’s W-class (wavy-handled and cylindrical jars) constitute an important group of pottery still useful for the dating of egyptian graves and settlement strata. the shape of these vessels changed over the time transforming from the broad forms to the cylindrical jars. similarly the decoration changed from well to less or more pronounced and protruding pair of handles, through a modelled decorative band of wavy pattern and then incised or impressed motives which finally, at the end of the sequence, completely disappear. These changes allowed their arrangement into typological series and made it possible to establish their chronological development.
Click here to read this article from Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization
