AePIX_PonsMellado

Pons Mellado, Esther,
Department of Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities, National Archaeological Museum, Madrid, SP

Predynastic Vessel with human and animal figures and landscape representations of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePIX-2025-163-174  
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Aegyptus et Pannonia IX, Acta Symposii anno 2023, objects and Concepts.
Proceedings of the Conference held 19th-20th Januar, 2023, Budapest; ed. by Hedvig Győry.
Published by The Ancient Egyptian Committee of the Hungarian-Egyptian Friendship Society, Budapest 2025.
ISBN: 978-615-6571-04-5 (printed), ISBN 978-615-6571-05-2 (pdf); DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePIX-2025
Soft cover. No Jacket. 1.st Edition. 18+380 pages (24x17), with colour pictures.

Abstract
One of the most important pieces of the collection belonging to Eduard Toda i Güell of the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid is a small Predynastic globular vessel richly decorated with male human figures holding weapons or ritual objects, animals (addax, goats, gazelles or ibex) and a landscape.
The geometric decoration and in some cases human figures started to be used very early on containers from the Naqada I period but around the middle of the fourth millennium BC this period was superseded by a more developed culture (Naqada II) and now we will also see animals, plants, boats and water symbolizing the Nile River