C-Ware – elliptical bowl C-0003
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb B107.
1898 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895-1908 E.3101.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete, repaired
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Preservation information :
Almost intact, chipped; decoration mostly visible as a ghost
Decoration
Half of the interior rim is decorated with an irregular double zigzag of three lines each. On the other half, a crosshatched net is depicted, attached to two floaters or weights at each extremity, which are painted on the outside of the vessel. A crocodile, seen in top view, fills the bottom of the vessel, its body decorated with chevrons and its tail bearing a series of triangles representing the scales of the hide. Its four legs end up with four- to six-toed claws. Seven additional chevrons-designs (one, near the left front leg, is not visible on the drawing) and a zigzag are depicted near the crocodile. They probably represent the Nilotic environment.
Dimensions (cm)
5.1
28
20.4
28
Additional information
Open
Vi 549
Oi 100
direct
round base
Inside and outside
Acknowledgements
We thank Liam McNamara for facilitating the study of this artefact.
References
1901
Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu. Egypt Exploration Fund Memoir 20. London
, 33.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 58, cat. 388, fig. 27.1998
Peaux d'animaux comme symboles prédynastiques: à propos de quelques représentations sur les vases White Cross-lined. Chronique d'Egypte 73
, 209, n. 12.2004
Images, human bodies, and the construction of memory in late predynastic Egypt, in: Hendrickx, Stan; Friedman, Renée; Ciałowicz, Krzysztof M.; Chłodnicki, Marek (eds), Egypt at its origins: studies in memory of Barbara Adams; proceedings of the International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Kraków, 28th August–1st September 2002. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 138. Leuven
, fig. 2 (right).