C-Ware sherd of bowl, rim C-0043

C-Ware – sherd of bowl, rim C-0043

By Droux, Xavier

Armant
, Tomb 1457.
1930's : Egypt Exploration Society excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN QCL 1246.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Sherd

Decoration preservation : Mostly lost

Decoration

On the inside of the vessel, remains of three bands filled with crosshatching. On the outside, groups of short parallel horizontal lines.

Payne 1993: fig. 28, 403.

Dimensions (cm)

Rim diameter :

13.5

Fragment dimensions :

H: 7.4

Additional information

Form :

Open

Shape of base:

not preserved

Decoration location :

Inside and outside

Comments

The Ashmolean sherd painted pattern differs from that of the drawing published in the excavation report (Mond & Myers 1937: pl. XXVII, 44b). Since a sherd ("293/1457") of the same type was analysed at the Courtauld Institute of Arts (Mond & Myers 1937: 189), we suppose that two similar sherds came from the same tomb. Whether both sherds belonged to the same vessel cannot be determined.