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C-Ware – elliptical bowl C-0067
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb a112.4.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.London, Petrie Museum, UC 10780.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Decoration
The vessel is filled with a series of long, oblique parallel lines running across the vessel. Short, parallel lines are drawn perpendicular to them in small groups, creating a pattern of hashed diamond-shaped areas.
1921: pl. XX, 2.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
1902: pl. XV, 13.
Dimensions (cm)
Height :
4
Maximum diameter :
16.3
Small diameter :
11.9
Rim diameter :
16.3
Additional information
Form :
Open
Vessel index :
Vi 408
Opening index :
Oi 100
Shape of rim :
direct
Shape of base:
round base
Decoration location :
Inside
References
Randall-MacIver, D. ; Mace, A. C.
1902
El Amrah and Abydos, 1899–1901. Egypt Exploration Fund, special extra publication, 23. London
, pl. XV, 13.Petrie, W. M. F.
1920
Prehistoric Egypt. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account, twenty-third year, 1917. London
, pl. X, 5.
