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C-Ware – shallow bowl C-0075
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb b136.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1896-1908 E.2782.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
Four large and four smaller downturned triangles filled with dots alternate at the rim ; spirale on the bottom and groups of two and three parallel horizontal lines between the spiral and the smaller triangles, somehow giving the impression that the spirale is supposed to be larger and extend underneath the tip of the larger triangles.
1921: pl. XXII, 46D.
1993: fig. 28.
Dimensions (cm)
Height :
5.9
Maximum diameter :
16.6
Rim diameter :
16.6
Additional information
Form :
Open
Vessel index :
Vi 281
Opening index :
Oi 100
Shape of base:
flat 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
, 16-17, pl. XV, 16.
