C-Ware – broad beaker C-0070
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb a74.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Bristol, Museum and art gallery, H691.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Preservation information :
Surface eroded in parts and paint mostly lost, with ghost impression visible.
Description
White-painted Black-top vessel, classed here as a C-ware vessel.
Remains of designs in white around the lower part, on the red-polished part of the vessel.
Decoration
Triple (?) zigzag.
Dimensions (cm)
10.7
7.6
7.6
Additional information
Open
Vi 71
Oi 100
direct
flat base
Outside
Comments
The tomb number is uncertain, there is no mention of a C-ware or painted B-ware in the excavation report.
Acknowledgements
We thank Amber Druce for facilitating the study of this artefact on 24.04.2013.
References
2021
Found in a cellar, but from Naqada? A new predynastic hunting scene on a C-ware fragment from the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, Liverpool, in: Claes, Wouter; De Meyer, Marleen; Eyckerman, Merel; Huyge, Derek † (eds), Remove the pyramid! Studies on the archaeology and history of predynastic and pharaonic Egypt in honour of Stan Hendrickx. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 305. Leuven
, 399, note 10.
