C-Ware fancy-shaped beaker C-0244

C-Ware – fancy-shaped beaker C-0244

By Droux, Xavier

Naqada
, Tomb N1497.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.479.

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Preservation : Fragmentary

Preservation information :
About one half of the upper side of the beaker is missing, but its full profile is preserved.

Decoration

Nine similar vertical series of crosshatched square to rectangular areas, connected to one another at their top and bottom corners. It is likely that each series ran from base to rim, but the small portion of the rim that survives is bretween two series.

Petrie 1921: pl. XXIII, 74D.

Payne 1993: fig. 29, 419.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

20

Maximum diameter :

13.9

Rim diameter :

8.2

Other dimensions :

Base diam.: 4.0

Additional information

Form :

Closed

Vessel index :

Vi 70

Opening index :

Oi 59

Shape of base:

flat base

Decoration location :

Outside

Comments

Inscription "1497 (not perfect)" written in black ink on the inside.

Acknowledgements

We thank Liam McNamara for facilitatin the study of this artefact.

References

Petrie, W. M. F. ; Quibell, J. E.

1896

Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London

, pl. XXIX, 74.

Petrie, W. M. F.

n.d.

Ceramics classification slip, manuscript document (Petrie Museum UCL)

Petrie, W. M. F.

1921

Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London

, pl. XXIII, 74D.

Baumgartel, E. J.

1947

The cultures of prehistoric Egypt I. London

, 58, fig. 8, 8; pl. 8, 3.

1952

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

, 266, fig. 170.

1993

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

, 62, cat. 419, fig. 29.

Cite this Page

Droux, X. 2022. C-0244, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/C-0244. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director