C-Ware – deep bowl C-0151
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb U266.
1898–1899 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1896-1908 E.2780.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Unknown
Decoration preservation : Unknown
Decoration
Two large downturned triangles filled with dots are placed on opposite sides of the vessel, with a chevron-band filled with hatching painted a distance below and connected to the triangle by a vertical line. The rest of the decorative space consists of a smaller, downturned, crosshatched triangle (with the line of its left side extending below the tip) located next to a vertical, crosshatched band. These motifs are faced on the opposite side by by a series of four small, crosshatched triangles placed next to one another in a vertical series, and connected to each other at the tip by a vertical line.
Dimensions (cm)
11
19
19
Additional information
Open
Vi 173
Oi 100
flat base
Inside
References
1901
Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu. Egypt Exploration Fund Memoir 20. London
, pl. XIV, 43a.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXII, 32N.1952
Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne I: 1; les époques de formation, la préhistoire. Paris
, 265, fig. 169.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 59, cat. 395, fig. 27.1993
L'image et son cadre: réflexions sur la structure du champ figuratif en Égypte prédynastique. Archéo-Nil 3
, 14, fig. 7, 32N.
