176. 4th Dynasty: Pottery. Best polished red ware. Ewers and basins. Medium style of bowls.

Bread pots. 177. 5th Dynasty: Pottery. Bread pots. Offerings. Actually meat occassionally. Pl.xliii, give some idea of the pottery bread pots 178. 6th Dynasty: Pottery. Rough-egg shaped pots very common and typical. Duckling typical. Offerings. Meat occassionally. Pl.xliii-xlv. 3 in xlviii 179. The 7th and 8th Dynasty. Pottery. Standing jugs with spouts. Offerings. Meat occasionally. Pl. xlv- xlvii 180. The 9th and 10th Dynasty: Pottery. Tall Hs-vases with narrow necks. Offerings. Meat rarely. Pottery tables of offerings. Pl. xlix p.72-74 183. The pottery consists chiefly of the jars for the provision of drink. This was probably water as a rule. The pots are even then they rarely covered. They may have been also intended for grain or meal, but the former was only found once or twice. In some sealed jars the contents were pure mud, which was considered quite a good substitute. The forms of these jars show a distinct and simple progression from the pointed forms of the 5th Dynasty with their high shoulders to the drop-shaped types of the 9th to 11th Dynasties. It may have lasted on for ceremonial use, as it is frequently shown in relief on the stone hetep-tables of the 5th Dynasty from Saqqara. For copper model of an offering table and vases of 6th Dynasty see Petrie, Dendereh, pl. xxii, p. 7, 25

30. The rude trays of offerings of pottery, pl. xix., have not been precisely dated before. Most of these were found in indistinguishable pit tombs without any sculpture. Some few are, however, dated. The earliest is 15, of class D, or about the IXth-Xth Dynasty. The next is No. 3, that of Mera, which is of class E, or the earliest Xlth Dynasty. The next is No. 13, which is of Hotepa, class F, or middle Xlth Dynasty. It seems, therefore, that they began as simple tanks just before the Xlth Dynasty, and the models of food were added later. p26

P5: A similar cooking-pot was found with the bottom of a rush basket crushed into it. 12. Area 5500. Here there were no Badarian graves, though there were some tombs of various later dates. It seems to have been the centre of the Badarian town. The single objects found consist mainly of pottery. The forms are : BBI~q~e,, 31b, 61k, 77k, 77p; PR4h ; ABIO ; MSI, 5, 10, 14, 16, 19, 22 ; SB7h ; RBI~2~3,f, z7k, 27t, and 31h. BBqe and 31b were found together at a depth of 14 ins. ; 23 was 10 ins. down ; 77k had its mouth apparently flush with the old desert surface (pl. xx, 12). 5548. An interesting group of objects found all together 8 ins. below the present surface, close to the remains of a large rough cooking-pot like RBz7k.