C-Ware – deep bowl, with applied figurines C-0108
By Droux, Xavier
, Archaeological context unknown. 10.03.1906 : Purchased.Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 18804 (JE 38284).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration preservation : Good
Description
The vessel has four modelled figurines on its exterior.
Decoration
Four crocodile figurines are applied on the outside of the vessel, at an angle. They are represented in top view, their heads toward the rim, with their legs flexed. The scales of their hides on their backs and tails are modelled and painted white. White paint also emphasises the claws, the nostrils, and the bottom of the bodies. Between the crocodiles are four oblique bands of crosshatching, two of which have mostly disappeared. The inside of the vessel is decorated with two large downturned crosshatched triangles. An irregular band of cross-hatching with a double outline is painted between them.
Dimensions (cm)
11
19.4
19.4
Additional information
Open
Vi 176
Oi 100
flat base
Inside and outside
References
1913
Tongefässe: Erster Teil, bis zum Beginn des Alten Reiches. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Egyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Vienna
, 23-4, cat. 18804, pl. VII.1998
Peaux d'animaux comme symboles prédynastiques: à propos de quelques représentations sur les vases White Cross-lined. Chronique d'Egypte 73
, 210, n. 13.2015
Riverine and desert animals in predynastic Upper Egypt: material culture and faunal remains. Dphil thesis, University of Oxford. Oxford
, cat. 5.6.2021
A hippopotamus in a dish: Predynastic bowl Cairo Museum JE 85928 and aspects of hippopotamus symbolism in predynastic Egypt, in: Buchez, N. & Tristant, Y. (eds.), Rochecouste, O. (coll.), Égypte Antérieure. Mélanges de préhistoire et d’archéologie offerts à Béatrix Midant-Reynes par ses étudiants, collègues et amis, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 304. Leuven
, 305–310, table 1, no. 7.