C-Ware – deep bowl C-0188
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb 763.
1913 : Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts expedition.Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, MFA 13.3935 (M763).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete, repaired
Decoration preservation : Partly lost
Preservation information :
Chip missing at rim and flake on interior surface.
Description
The bottom of the vessel is not slipped nor polished.
Decoration
The decoration of the vessel is divided in two symmetrical sections. Each is composed of two large downturned crosshatched triangles that frame the representation of an animal-topped comb with long teeth. Only one animal is well preserved enough for identification: it has long horns curving backwards, which are characteristic of the ibex. It is likely that the same animal was intended above the second comb. Both animals are in a recumbent position and their bodies are crosshatched. The combs are framed by series of double and triple short, oblique strokes.
Dimensions (cm)
7.1
15.7
15.7
Additional information
Open
Vi 221
Oi 100
flat base
Inside
Comments
According to Ehrlich (n.d.: fig. 24), the bowl was not found on the floor of the tomb; its attribution to this grave is likely but perhaps not certain (?).
References
1953
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, 79, fig. 5 right.1980
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Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 114.2015
Riverine and desert animals in predynastic Upper Egypt: material culture and faunal remains. Dphil thesis, University of Oxford. Oxford
, cat. 1.15.2021
Found in a cellar, but from Naqada? A new predynastic hunting scene on a C-ware fragment from the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, Liverpool, in: Claes, Wouter; De Meyer, Marleen; Eyckerman, Merel; Huyge, Derek † (eds), Remove the pyramid! Studies on the archaeology and history of predynastic and pharaonic Egypt in honour of Stan Hendrickx. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 305. Leuven
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