C-Ware – shallow bowl C-0119
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb 1649.
1924 : Excavation of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt – Egyptian Research Account.Collection unknown
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Fragmentary
Decoration preservation : Unknown
Preservation information :
Only about half of the vessel is preserved.
Decoration
Three animlas, following one another and all facing right, are preserved. Two of them have frontward pointing horns that curve upward, which is very unusual in C-ware art; they are tentatively considered as bulls. The head of the third animal is not preserved; it may also have been a bull, but it cannot be excluded that another species was intended. There is space for at least another animal in the missing part of the vessel. Above the back of each bull is a semi-circular design hanging from the rim, one filled with parallel, horizontal wavy lines, the other semi-circular wavy lines. No such design was apparently painted above the back of the third animal.
At the bottom is a double circle that encloses three (likely four originally) triangles filled with chevrons that point toward the centre.
Dimensions (cm)
3
9
9
Additional information
Open
Vi 300
Oi 100
convexe base
Inside
References
1928
The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 46, 30th year, 1924. London
, 54, pl. XXXVIII, 49k.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 30.2019
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
, 36–37, fig. 3.2021
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
, 401.
