C-Ware – fancy-shaped bowl C-0227
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb 7203.
1901–1902 : Hearst Egyptian Expedition excavation.Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 6-4333.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Unknown
Decoration preservation : Unknown
Description
Duck-shaped vessel, with the head modelled at one of the narrow ends while the opposite end is slightly raised in order to represent the tail.
Decoration
The exterior is decorated with oblique groups of short, parallel wavy lines. The interior is decorated with a single, continuous zigzag along the rim. The head seems to be decorated with a wavy line and the eyes seem to be indicated.
Dimensions (cm)
7.3
9.5
13.7
Additional information
Open
Vi 130
direct
flat base
Outside and inside lip
Comments
The identification of the vessel as Berkeley 6-4333 is uncertain.
References
1965
The predynastic cemetery N7000. Egyptian Archaeology VII; Naga-ed-Dêr IV. Berkeley & Los Angeles
, 116-7, fig. 50c, d.2.3.2021
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. 7.2024
The ostrich in predynastic and early dynastic bird representations, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 744–745, fig. 3.
