Badarian Pottery
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Brunton/Caton-Thompson 1928: 21-24 divided the pottery into several classes:
Class BB: black-topped brown polished, very fine (the earliest pottery from Badari)
Class SB: smooth brown pots
Class RB: rough class (the latest pottery)
Description of the pottery:
handmade, surface is covered with fine rippling
(detail of UC 9045)
the better class of pottery had a slip; the colour of the wash varies according to the degree of heat used in firing and to the amount of oxygen present:
black surface - absence of oxygen;
bright red is maximum oxygen, clay is mostly very fine grained
Brunton/Caton-Thompson 1928: 21-26 (one of the first reports and descriptions of Badarian pottery)
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