C-Ware deep bowl C-0183
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C-Ware – deep bowl C-0183

By Droux, Xavier

Mesaid

, Tomb 41.

1910 : Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts expedition.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, MFA 11.309 (M41/3).

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Complete, repaired

Decoration preservation : Mostly faded

Decoration

Four narrow downturned, evenly spaced traingles have their tip reaching the outermost of the two concentric lines painted at the bottom of the bowl. The wall of the vessel is entirely filled with polka dots, inside the triangles as well as between them.

Museum of Fine Arts (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Reisner 1936; 3, fig. 177, 3.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

6.4

Maximum diameter :

16.5

Rim diameter :

16.5

Additional information

Form :

Open

Vessel index :

Vi 258

Opening index :

Oi 100

Shape of base:

flat base

Decoration location :

Inside

Cite this Page

Droux, X. 2022. C-0183, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/C-0183. retrieved 12 February 2025.