C-Ware sherd of bowl, rim-to-base C-0176

C-Ware – sherd of bowl, rim-to-base C-0176

By Droux, Xavier

Mesaid
, Archaeological context unknown. 1910 : Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts expedition.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, MFA 11.300.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Sherd

Decoration preservation : Very good

Decoration

Remains of a concentric line at bottom, from which arise thirteen plant stems with short leaves on both sides.

Museum of Fine Arts (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Fragment dimensions :

16.5 x 11.8

Additional information

Form :

Open

Shape of rim :

direct

Shape of base:

unknown

Decoration location :

Inside

Comments

The card for tomb 30 lists a C-ware vessel (or fragments?) according to Ehrlich (n.d.: 55); it is possible, but not certain, that this is the same object; both were excavated during the same excavation season. Note that tomb 71 also contained C-ware sherds, but the plural suggests that these are more likely to be C-0177.

References

Ehrlich, P.

n.d.

The Predynastic of Mesaeed. PhD thesis

, 19, 55, fig. 14.

Graff, G.

2009

Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven

, cat 577.

Hendrickx, S. ; Droux, X. ; Förster, F. ; Hartmann, R. ; Hartung, U.

2022

Evidence for the scalping of captives on a Predynastic White Cross-lined jar. Archéo-Nil 32

, note 25.