C-Ware sherd of bowl, rim-to-base C-0191

C-Ware – sherd of bowl, rim-to-base C-0191

By Droux, Xavier

Mostagedda
, Settlement 11700.
1928–1929 : British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1930.478.

Date : Naqada IA–IIB

General range of C-ware production

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Sherds

Decoration preservation : Good

Decoration

The remaining decoration consists mostly of short strokes with varying orientation; remains of the tip of a triangle (?), and of a possible boat or animal, depending on which way is considered to be up. An animal is perhaps more likely, as it would have a short tail and four short legs ending in small dots; it would have a protuberant belly. The head-part would be missing. There are remains of three oval (?) shapes, one with a double outline, and all filled with oblique parallel lines. Not enough of the decoration is preserved to propose a certain identification of the painted motifs.

Brunton 1937: pl. XXXVIII, 4.

Payne 1993: fig. 30, 425.

Dimensions (cm)

Fragment dimensions :

9.1

Additional information

Form :

Closed

Shape of base:

round base

Decoration location :

Outside

References

Brunton, G.

1937

Mostagedda and the Tasian culture. British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt, first and second years, 1928–1929. London

, pl. XXXVIII, 4.

Baumgartel, E. J.

1947

The cultures of prehistoric Egypt I. London

, 71, fig 21.

Vandier, J.

1952

Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne I: 1; les époques de formation, la préhistoire. Paris

, 281, fig. 187.

Asselberghs, H.

1961

Chaos en beheersing: documenten uit het aeneolitisch Egypte. Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui 8. Leiden

, 303, cat. 10, pl. VII.

Payne, J. C.

1993

Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford

, 63, cat. 425, fig. 30.

Mark, S.

1997

From Egypt to Mesopotamia, a study of predynastic trade routes. London

, 81, fig. 43.

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. 592.

Vanhulle, D.

2021

L'image comme vecteur de discours idéologique: analyse diachronique des représentations de bateau dans l'art pré- et protodynastique, in: Köhler, E. Christiana; Kuch, Nora; Junge, Friederike (eds), Egypt at its Origins 6: proceedings of the sixth International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Vienna, 10^th–15^th September 2017. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 303. Leuven

, 766, note 2.

Cite this Page

Droux, X. 2022. C-0191, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/C-0191. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Brunton, Guy

Excavation director