C-Ware – elliptical bowl C-0047
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb 3802.
1922–1925 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.London, Petrie Museum, UC 9547.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration preservation : Partially faded
Decoration
Along one of the vessel's long sides, two men hold a horizontal line on which hang eighteen folded threads; on the opposite side of the vessel a rectangular design with long parallel lines crossed over by several shorter perpendicular lines is interpreted as a loom seen in top view. A small, rectangular motif is painted next to on the bottom of the bowl.
Dimensions (cm)
5.3
22.9
22.9
Additional information
Open
Vi 432
Oi 100
direct
flat base
Inside
References
1928
The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 46, 30th year, 1924. London
, 51, pl. XXXVIII, 70k, pl. XLVIII.1952
Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne I: 1; les époques de formation, la préhistoire. Paris
, 285, fig. 193.2002
Decorated sherds from renewed excavations at Locality 6, Hierakonpolis. Cahiers Caribéens d'Egyptologie 3–4
, 10, n. 18.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 11.2015
De la figure anthropomorphe prédynastique à l’émergence de l’image de Pharaon: pour une approche transversale de l’imagerie pré- et protodynastique égyptienne (Nagada I-Nagada III, 3900-2700 av. J.-C.). Archéologie et Préhistoire. PHD thesis, University of Strasbourg. Strasbourg
, 1344, ref. VC_BAD_001.
