Hi Danny:
You may want to check the following publications:
Kelly, Allyn L. The
Pottery of Ancient
Egypt: Dynasty I to
Roman Times; Royal
Ontario Museum (
ROM), 1976: Plates 46.1 to 46.4; Numbers 3, 11, 12, 22, 23, 24, 25, 38, 49 and 50. Note - all of the referenced jugs have "stippled" decorations on their surfaces. Each plate has a heading "
Hyksos Cities" "2nd Intermediate Period". The text indicates that the
pottery examples, so labeled, came from
Petrie, W.M.F. and
Duncan, J.G.
Hyksos & Israelite Cities, British School of Archaeololgy in
Egypt and
Egyptian Research Account 12th Year, 1906;
London, 1906: Plates
VII and
VIII.
Petrie's "Temple of Onias" was located on Tell el Yahudiyeh also known as "The Mound of the Jew" because of Onias' temple there. The
pottery found at Tell el Yahudiyeh does not look like yours; the
Hyksos examples illustrated look a lot more like what you have.
I'm curious... Is the surface of your
jug stippled or is it smooth? Your
jug appears to be white or cream colored, is it actually black?
Since you mentioned Tell el Yahudiyeh, I also checked the double publication of Naville, Edouard The Mound of the Jew and the City of Onias. Belbeis, Samanood, Abusir, Tukh el Karmus, 1887 with Griffith, F. Ll. The
Antiquities of Tell el Yahudiyeh and Miscellaneous
Work in Lower
Egypt during the Years 1887-1888, Seventh Memoir of The
Egypt Exploration Fund (Extra Volume for 1888-9),
London, 1890. See page 40, Plate XI, Nos. 1, 2, and 3(?), "
Types of black
pottery"; black ware with stippling, filled with white, to imitate
palm branch, dated Dyn.
XII to Dyn. XX. And Plate XV, No. 9, titled "Tell el Yahudiyeh, Tumuli, XX Dyn. The text is silent.
The basic shapes of all these jugs are very similar or identical to yours.
I
hope this helps.
Russ