C-Ware – ovoid jar with loop-handle C-0011
By Droux, Xavier
, Archaeological context unknown. Lortet excavation (?).Lyon, Musée des Confluences, 90000115.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete, repaired
Decoration preservation : Faded
Preservation information :
The decoration is mostly visible as a ghost.
Description
The handle has a semi-circular shape and is positioned vertically above the vessel.
Decoration
Four hippopotami facing right follow one another; their bodies are crosshatched. Three of the animals stand above groups of downturned chevrons; two of these groups have three chevrons, the other only two.
Dimensions (cm)
16
13
Additional information
Closed
Vi 81
flat base
Outside
References
(ed.).
2010
L'Égypte au Musée des Confluences: de la palette à fard au sarcophage. Lyon
, cat. 21, 56–7,108.2022
A pretty happy hippo: pictorial narrativity in the early Naqada Period, in: Sperveslage, Gunnar (ed.), Early Egyptian Miscellanies: discussions and essays on predyastic and early dynastic Egypt. Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 26. Berlin, London
, passim, fig. 1, pl. 1.