Ancient Egyptian Pottery from the Collection of Vladimir S. Golenischev at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Individual Selection for a Representative Exposition

Abstract

The article describes the collection of ancient Egyptian ceramic vessels, collected by the famous Russian Egyptologist Vladimir S. Golenischev and now preserved in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Despite its relatively small size (about 100 samples), the collection is highly representative: It illustrates Egyptian pottery from the early Predynastic Period (Naqada I, 4000–3600 B.C.) to the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641 A.D. and allows to study various aspects of the pottery manufacturing, morphological evolution, features of decor, artistic preferences and foreign influence on this type of craft.