An ancient Egyptian curved diorite gneiss bowl with five in-turned rim sections. Found in tomb 1024 at Giza Necropolis, Fourth Dynasty (ca. 2613–2494 BCE) or earlier, now housed at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in California [1504×1937]
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Love to get ahold of a copper chisel that can do that!
I use pounding stones on the weekends to knock these out by the dozen. No biggie. Ask Hawas, it’s in his book.
Googling Gneiss bowl did not yield usable results. Are you sure this is a “Gneiss” bowl?