C-Ware – sherd of fancy-shaped vessel, body C-0228
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1587.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.474.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Sherd
Decoration preservation : Very good
Description
Black-topped vessel (B-ware) with applied white decoration.
Decoration
Two tripple zigzag designs run around the body; the lower part is coated white.
Dimensions (cm)
H: 13.3; Diam: 3.4
Additional information
Closed
Outside
Comments
"1587" written both in pencil and ink on the object.
Acknowledgements
We thank Liam McNamara for facilitating the study of this artefact..
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 137: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1490–N1492, N1550–N1559, N1586–N161)]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, (p. 17–18).1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 33, cat. 101, fig. 22.2021
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
, 399, note 10.