C-Ware deep bowl C-0034

C-Ware – deep bowl C-0034

By Droux, Xavier

Armant (?)
, Cemetery 1400-1500.
1930's : Egypt Exploration Society excavation. Bought; ex Oliver H. Meyers collection.

London, Petrie Museum, UC 10696.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Intact

Decoration preservation : Good

Decoration

Four vertical compartments are filled with groups of horizontal wavy lines and horizontal straight lines; each panel consists of seven wavy lines at the bottom, followed by three straight lines, then three wavy lines and three straight lines again. The top-most lines are painted on the rim.

Petrie Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Mond & Myers 1937: pl. XXVIII, C47c.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

8.4

Maximum diameter :

Rim diameter :

Other dimensions :

Base diam.: 6.3

Additional information

Form :

Open

Vessel index :

Vi 202

Opening index :

Oi 100

Shape of base:

convexe base

Decoration location :

Inside

Comments

This vessel belongs to the group of C-ware vessels bought by Myers during the first season of excavation, that likely came from cemetery 1400-1500, which had been disturbed 'recently' before they undertook their excavation (Mond & Myers 1937: 9). Myers kept the ownership of the vessel according to the excavation report (Mond & Myers 1937: 62). There seems to be a second bowl of the same type and decoration based on the mention "2x" next to the published drawing.