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Sherds (15 and 6 chips) of Transitional White-on-Red Domestic Ware. Fabric is porous Nile silt with organic temper and sparse sand. Globular pots and jars both large and small are the most common ...

Sherds (28 and one chip) of X-Group Fine White Ware. Fabric is very fine clay with fine black, white and red particles as temper, usually light cream, buff, tan, grey or pink (munsell 5YR 7/4, 10YR6/2 ...

Sherds (19 sherds and 20+ chips) of Meroitic Ordinary Red Ware, a basic late Kushite Meroitic red-ware. The fabric is brown to red-brown mud with abundant sand temper and some organic inclusions. The ...

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