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C-Ware – bowl C-0069
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb a58.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Bristol, Museum and art gallery, H710.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Decoration
Four compartments are filled with groups of parallel horizontal lines; from the bottom, these groups are composed of four straight lines, three wavy lines, four horizontal lines, and three horizontal lines.
(ed.) :Online catalogue.
1902: pl. XV, 3.
© Xavier Droux, courtesy of the Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives.
Additional information
Form :
Open
Shape of rim :
direct
Shape of base:
flat base
Decoration location :
Inside
Acknowledgements
We thank Amber Druce for facilitating the study of this artefact on 24.04.2013.
References
Randall-MacIver, D. ; Mace, A. C.
1902
El Amrah and Abydos, 1899–1901. Egypt Exploration Fund, special extra publication, 23. London
, pl. XV, 3.Petrie, W. M. F.
1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXII, 47.
