C-Ware – deep bowl C-0231

A hippopotamus, facing right, is represented just below a series of small ticks that run along the rim. Its body is filled with a upturned and downturned triangles filled with chevrons and its head with five lines that are paralell to the flat end of its muzzle. Its ears and nostrils are indicated by small protuberances and its incisors protrude from its mouth, the tail is indicated on its hindquarter. Two harpoons struck the hippopotamus: one in the mouth, the other in the chest; the rope of each weapon is hown as a long line that loops at its extremity. These lines and loops are painted on the part of the vessel that was (possibly) not sliped.

The hippopotamus stands on a double zigzag that extends into a concentric line running around the bottom of the vessel; the zigzag may represent the aquatic environment of the animal. Both in front of and behind the hippopotamus are two double desings consisting of a downturned, crosshatched triangle with a downturned, crosshatched chevron below. On the side opposite the hippopotamus are two large, downturned, crosshatched triangles, with a smaller, upturned chevron filled with small horizontal lines to their right.