C-Ware – fancy-shaped bowl C-0226
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb 7202.
1901–1902 : Hearst Egyptian Expedition excavation.Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 6-4331.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete
Decoration preservation : Partly lost
Preservation information :
Not certain if the head placed next to the bowl on the photograph belongs to this object. The surface is abraded in parts.
Description
Duck-shaped vessel, with the head originally modelled at one of the narrow ends while the opposite end is slightly raised in order to represent the tail.
Decoration
The outside of the body is decorated with oblique wavy lines.
Dimensions (cm)
5.5
100
12
9.5
Additional information
Open
Vi 218
direct
Outside
References
1965
The predynastic cemetery N7000. Egyptian Archaeology VII; Naga-ed-Dêr IV. Berkeley & Los Angeles
, 115-6, fig. 49h.1.1981
Spatial distribution in a predynastic cemetery: Naga ed Dêr 7000. MA dissertation, University of California. Berkeley
, 201, pl. 12D.2021
A hippopotamus in a dish: Predynastic bowl Cairo Museum JE 85928 and aspects of hippopotamus symbolism in predynastic Egypt, in: Buchez, N. & Tristant, Y. (eds.), Rochecouste, O. (coll.), Égypte Antérieure. Mélanges de préhistoire et d’archéologie offerts à Béatrix Midant-Reynes par ses étudiants, collègues et amis, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 304. Leuven
, 310–311, table 2, no. 4.
