C-Ware – squat beaker C-0247
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1563.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.476.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete, repaired
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Description
On the inside, only a band in the upper part is slipped.
Decoration
The decoration is divided in six vertical panels. Five of them are decorated in a similar manner, with a donwnturned triangle filled with chevons hanging from the rim. Below each of these triangles are two groups of downturned chevrons, each lower group having added oblique lines at their bottom corner. The last panel is filled with a vertical zigzag of four parallel lines.
On the inside, the lip is decorated with seven groups of parallel vertical lines (4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4 lines); one of these groups is slightly more oblique than the others.
Dimensions (cm)
10.3
15.8
15.8
Base diam.: 7.0
Additional information
Open
Vi 153
Oi 100
flat base
Outside and inside lip
Comments
Number "1563" written both in pencil and black ink on the inside.
Acknowledgements
We thank Liam McNamara for facilitating the study of this artefact..
References
1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXIX, 56.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIII, 54.