the pottery from four tumuli graves in el-zum a (2009)
the pottery from four tumuli graves in el-zum a (2009)

Summary/Abstract: Four tumuli were explored by the Polish team at el-Zuma in 2009 in an effort to verify the typology of the mounds. All were located in the northern part of the cemetery and represented already established types II and III . The pottery was examined individually and as burial sets in the individual chambers, as well as in each of the graves and the shafts leading to the burials. The wheelmade bowls and cups from tomb T.13 represented a typical early Makurian assemblage known from other graves in el-Zuma. Generally, the pottery from the other graves was more diverse. One small jar from T.17 bore unique incised decoration in the form of a palm tree on one side and a monumental staff on a pedestal with lunate top, introduced over an earlier image of a giraffe.

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