C-Ware – sherd of bowl, rim-to-base C-0164
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb? H. A..
1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Manchester, University Museum, 5095 a+b.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Fragmentary
Decoration preservation : Very good
Preservation information :
The larger fragements is composed of three mended sherds. There is a fourth, loose sherd.
Decoration
The larger, reconstructed fragment of the vessel is decorated with a series of downturned crosshatched triangles along the rim; there are uneven gaps between the triangles which are not connected. A hartebeest is depicted facing left. It has lyre-shaped horns, short ears, a mane on the back of the neck, and a long tail. Its body is filled with horizontal chevrons.
The smaller fragents only preserves two downturned, crosshatched triangles with gaps between them, a single line on the right edge that may belong to second animal.
Dimensions (cm)
18 x 13.2
Additional information
Open
flat base
Inside
Acknowledgements
We thank Campbell Price for facilitating the study of this artefact on 30.04.2018.
References
1911
Pre-dynastic cemetery at El Mahasna. Egypt Exploration Fund 31. London
, 34, pl. XXIV, 7.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. LXI, 97H.2011
A new interpretation of two "C"-ware vessels from el-Mahasna, in: Aston, David A.; Bader, Bettina; Gallorini, Carla; Nicholson, Paul T.; Buckingham, Sarah (eds), Under the potter's tree: studies on Ancient Egypt presented to Janine Bourriau on the occasion of the 70th birthday. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 204. Leuven & Paris
.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
, 176–8, pl. XXX, b.
