C-Ware sherd, body C-0040

C-Ware – sherd, body C-0040

By Droux, Xavier

Armant
, Settement 1000: Level II, square M8, no. 31.
1930's : Egypt Exploration Society excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Sherd

Decoration preservation : Faded

Decoration

Irregular wavy lines (?).

Mond & Myers 1937: pl. LII.

Mond & Myers 1937: pl. LIV, 5, top row, second from left.

Additional information

Shape of base:

not preserved

Decoration location :

Inside and outside

Comments

In excavation report, the sherd is said to have been donated to the scientific deparment of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Mond & Myers 1937: 189), where scientific analyses were carried out by Dr P.D. Ritchie. In 2015, an exchange with A. Gerstein, curator at the Institute, did not clarify the current whereabout of this sherd.