C-Ware – deep bowl C-0120

By Droux, Xavier

Hammamiya

, Tomb 1666.
1924 : Excavation of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt – Egyptian Research Account.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1924.357.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Fragmentary

Decoration preservation : Unknown

Preservation information :
Just over half of vessel is preserved.

Decoration

Remains of two downturned triangles filled with polka dots, each divided by a vertical line that runs throught their middle; these lines extend downward and join at the bottom of the vessel.

Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. XXXVIII, 18d.

Payne 1993: fig. 27, 392.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

5.1

Maximum diameter :

13.2

Rim diameter :

13.2

Additional information

Form :

Open

Vessel index :

Vi 259

Opening index :

Oi 100

Shape of base:

flat base

Decoration location :

Inside

Comments

The vessel may come from a feature rather than a 'Tomb 1666', since it was registered with the context "1666, hole 36".

References

Brunton , G. ; Caton-Thompson , G.

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. XXXI, XXXVIII, 18d.

Adams , B.

2002

Decorated sherds from renewed excavations at Locality 6, Hierakonpolis. Cahiers Caribéens d'Egyptologie 3–4

, 12, n. 24.

Payne , J. C.

1993

Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford

, 59, cat. 392, fig. 27.