C-Ware – bowl, shallow C-0165
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb H15.
1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 41219.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Almost complete
Decoration preservation : Very good
Preservation information :
Chip at rim.
Decoration
Two hippopotami are represented head to tail. Their heads bear details of the eyes, nostrils and incisors, but the ears are apparently not depicted. Their heads and bodies are partly filled in with parallel strokes and hatched and crosshatched triangles. A zigzag design of four parallel lines is placed between the animals on one side of the vessel. A similar design is placed above the head of one hippopotamus. Two plants, probably the common reed, and four large downturned crosshatched triangles are depicted around the animals. The rim is decorated with groups of horizontal chevrons, and the bottom of the vessel with a zigzag design of uncertain meaning.
Dimensions (cm)
8
24
24
Additional information
Vi 300
Oi 100
Inside
References
1911
Pre-dynastic cemetery at El Mahasna. Egypt Exploration Fund 31. London
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, doc. 27g.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 55.2015
Riverine and desert animals in predynastic Upper Egypt: material culture and faunal remains. Dphil thesis, University of Oxford. Oxford
, cat. 1.23.2022
A pretty happy hippo: pictorial narrativity in the early Naqada Period, in: Sperveslage, Gunnar (ed.), Early Egyptian Miscellanies: discussions and essays on predyastic and early dynastic Egypt. Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 26. Berlin, London
, 39–40, fig. 2, no. 055.
