C-Ware deep bowl C-0055
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C-Ware – deep bowl C-0055

By Droux, Xavier

el-Amra

, Archaeological context unknown. March 1896 : E. Amélineau excavation. ? – 1948 : Collection of the Musée Guimet, Paris. 1948 : Given to the Musée du Louvre.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, E 21732.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Almost complete

Decoration preservation : Good

Preservation information :

Chips at rim.

Decoration

One long compartment filled with parallel lines runs from rim to rim through the bottom of the vessel. In its centre, two other compartments with similar filling pattern run to the rim, the whole creating a cross design. There is additionally one tripple downturned chevron below the rim in one of the areas left empty between the compartments.

Musée du Louvre (ed.) : Online catalogue, photo: Christian Décamps.
© X. Droux.
© X. Droux.
Amélineau 1899: pl. XI, top row, 4th from left

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

5.3

Maximum diameter :

10.7

Rim diameter :

10.7

Additional information

Form :

Open

Vessel index :

Vi 202

Opening index :

Oi 100

Shape of base:

round base

Decoration location :

Inside

Comments

Amélineau did not supervise the excavation at el-Amra that were carried out 4-13 March 1896 on request from de Morgan. Details of the tomb and its funerary assemblage are unknown. The paint was much better preserved at the time of Amelineau's publication than today.

Cite this Page

Droux, X. 2022. C-0055, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/C-0055. Retrieved 13 May 2024.