C-Ware – deep bowl C-0076

A single hippopotamus is depicted, facing right. Its silhouette is extremely schematic, its spine follows the rim of the vessel where small dots are painted on the lip as well as near its head and hindquarters. Its front legs are squeezed between the head and the belly in an awkward position. The body is decorated with hatched and one crosshatched triangles.

Both in front of and behind the hippopotamus is a pair of downturned, hatched triangles; in each pair, a triangle is filled with top-left to bottom-right lines, the other with top-right to bottom-left lines. The remaining available space is decorated with three vertical panels of upturned chevrons. Dots fill the space between the panels and are also present on the lip to the left of the panels. The same area to the right of the panels is decroated with two parallel oblique lines. There is a concentric line at the bottom of the vessel.