Late Predynastic Pot

Pot with Zigzaggy Stripes
From the Late Predynastic period (3400-3200 BCE)
Balboa Park Museum of Man
Photo ©Joan Ann Lansberry, 2016

"The early people of Lower Egypt, influenced by the cultures flourishing around the eastern Mediterranean, advanced more quickly than the Egyptians of the south. These northern Egyptians produced finely decorated pottery and sophisticated stone vessels during the Late Pre-Dynastic period (3400-3200 BCE) (From info card)