C-Ware – shallow bowl C-0110
By Droux, Xavier
, Archaeological context unknown. Gift William C. Hayes.Princeton, University Art Museum, y1930-493.
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
Decoration
Hunting scene implicating possibly four dogs, three bulls, and a man depicted standing. He holds two long, wavy leashes that are each attached to the neck of a dog. These two dogs are attacking one of the bulls, while the bull in front is attacked by at least one other dog, biting it in the belly. Another dog might be depicted above the back of this bull, mirroring the situation to the right, but only uncertain lines are preserved. The third bull is apparently not attacked. All the animals have their bodies filled in with chevron designs. Two series of three triangles filled with chevrons and a plant motif complete the decoration.
Dimensions (cm)
5.5
19.8
19.8
Additional information
Open
Vi 360
Oi 100
convexe base
Inside
Acknowledgements
We thank Dr Michael Padgett for facilitating the study of this artefact in summer 2011.
References
1953
Prehistoric Egyptian pottery in the Art Museum. Princeton University, Record of the Art Museum 12
, 76–8, figs. 1F, 2F, 3B, 4B.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 52.2010
L'iconographie de la chasse dans le contexte social prédynastique. Archéo-Nil 20
, 108–9, fig. 6.2012
Some new hunting scenes in predynastic C-wares: London Petrie Museum UC15331 and Oxford Ashmolean Museum 1946.297 'revisited'. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 139
, 1767–7, taf. XXIX c–e.2015
De la figure anthropomorphe prédynastique à l’émergence de l’image de Pharaon: pour une approche transversale de l’imagerie pré- et protodynastique égyptienne (Nagada I-Nagada III, 3900-2700 av. J.-C.). Archéologie et Préhistoire. PHD thesis, University of Strasbourg. Strasbourg
, 1350, VC_IND_003.2019
Le taureau à l’époque prédynastique et son importance pour le développement de l’iconographie royale – avec un excursus sur l’origine du sceptre héqa, in: Aufrère, Sydney (ed.), Les taureaux de l’Égypte ancienne. Publication éditée à l’occasion de la 14e Rencontre d’égyptologie de Nîmes. Égyptonimes 2
, 39–40, fig. 4.