Predynastic Vessel with human and animal figures and landscape representations of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid

Pons Mellado, Esther (2025) Predynastic Vessel with human and animal figures and landscape representations of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. In: Aegyptus et Pannonia IX. Magyar-Egyiptomi Baráti Társaság, Ókori Egyiptomi Bizottság, Budapest, pp. 163-174. ISBN 9786156571045; 9786156571052

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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very early on containers from the Naqada I period but around the middle of the fourth millennium BC this period was superseded by a more developed culture (Naqada II) and now we will also see animals, plants, boats and water symbolizing the Nile River.

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