Tell el-Yahudiyeh Earthenware Single Handled Amphora

A beautiful example of Tell el-Yahudiyeh earthenware amphora, featuring a round body, cylindrical neck and a flaring rim. One single applied handle extends form the vessel's rim to its shoulder. Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware refers to a distinctive terracotta production of the late Middle Bronze Age-Second Intermediate Period, recovered for the first time in the Tell el-Yahudiyeh site, located in the eastern Nile Delta in Egypt. However, pottery of this type have been recovered also in Cyprus and in the Levantine region. Measurements: 11cm height, 7cm width. Provenance: Ex London collection, formed pre-1992.