C-Ware ovoid jar with loop-handle, geometric decoration C-0002
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C-Ware – ovoid jar with loop-handle, geometric decoration C-0002

By Droux, Xavier

Abadiya

, Tomb B107.

1898 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1896-1908 E.2777.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Complete, repaired

Decoration preservation : Unknown

Description

The handle has a semi-circular shape and is positioned vertically above the vessel.

Decoration

Groups of downturned chevrons in compartments, leaving an empty area approximately at the level of maximum diameter, as well as near the base. The handle is not decorated.

Petrie 1921: pl. XXIII, 62.
Payne 1993: fig. 29, 412.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

12.8

Maximum diameter :

9.3

Additional information

Form :

Closed

Vessel index :

Vi 73

Shape of base:

flat base

Decoration location :

Outside

References

Petrie , W. M. F.

1901

Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu. Egypt Exploration Fund Memoir 20. London 

, pl. XIV, 62.
Petrie , W. M. F.

1921

Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London

, pl. XXIII, 62.
Bourriau , J.

1981

Umm el-Ga'ab: pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest. Cambridge

, 33, no. 45.
Payne , J. C.

1993

Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford

, 61, cat. 412, fig. 29.

Cite this Page

Droux, X. 2022. C-0002, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/C-0002. retrieved 01 September 2026.

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