EGYPTIAN ANCIENT POTTERY Antique piece of Egyptian pottery from Abu Ballas Pottery Hill Western Desert of Egypt very rare buy found 2002 - 31 g

FRAGMENT OF OLD ANCIENT AND VERY RARE EGYPTIAN POTTERY - ABU BALLAS - EGYPT

The Abu Ballas area has been occupied from about 8700 BP to about 5700 BP !

EGYPTIAN ANCIENT POTTERY - Antique piece of Egyptian pottery from Abu Ballas Pottery Hill Western Desert of Egypt very rare found 2002 - 31.3 g

This fragment comes from a very deserted place in the Western Desert of Egypt. Abu Ballas (the pottery hill) is a site in the Libyan desert of Egypt. It lies about 200 km south-west of the Dakhla Oases and consists of two isolated sandstone cones in the otherwise flat desert. Both hills are covered with Egyptian pottery. These vessels were at the beginning of the 20th century often well preserved. The site was discovered in 1918 and 1923.

The nature of this site remained for a long time mysteries. More recent research has shown that the site was a station on an ancient desert road, called Abu Ballas Trail, that connected the Dakla Oasis with the Gilf Kebir and the Jebel Ouenat. Some researchers maintain that Abu Ballas was a milestone of an ancient Egyptian trade route into central Africa or for prospecting minerals.

The place was installed in the late Old Kingdom or early First Intermediate Period, when some authorities decided to arrange supply depots on a track in the desert. Abu Ballas was one of the largest. Besides the pottery there were discovered some rock carvings, stone tools and even a senet game board engraved on a stone. There are no water sources nearby, evidently all water and food was brought here from the Dakhla Oases with donkeys. Most likely people lived here only for short periods of time. The desert road was buy mainly in use at the end of the Old Kingdom and to a lesser extent in the Second Intermediate Period and in the New Kingdom.

WEIGHT: 31.3 g

SIZE: See scale cube 1 cm (not included)

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