This delicate fine-walled cup has been restored from a single sherd that was recovered by the John Garstang excavations at Meroe in 1909-1910. Although most of the profile is preserved, the base has been restored based on parallel examples. The cup is decorated with an impressed design with five rows of a stylized ankh-sign set in a u-shaped semicircle. The impressed panel decoration is framed above and below by thin horizontal black lines. This vessel is an example of the fine pottery industry developed at the site of Meroe in the Sudan north of Khartoum in the first centuries of the common era. (Rexine Hummel & S.B. Shubert)