C-Ware – sherd of fancy-shaped vessel C-0252
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1591.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.475.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
On the side of the tube that likely originally faced another tube, vertical plant, painted oblique, with its upper part missing; to the right, two groups of three parallel zigzags, bent at the top to the left; they are all fully preserved; further to the right, between the zigzags and the plant, is a vertical series of seventeen parallel zigzags, getting smaller toward the top; they are all preserved. Although the top of the plant is missing, it is likely that the black-polished top part of the vessel was just above the break, not more than 0.5cm from it. At bottom, remains of white coating that likely extended on base of vessel. Same vessel as C-0314?
Comments
1591 written both in pencil and ink.
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 137: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1490–N1492, N1550–N1559, N1586–N161)]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, (p. 19).1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXIX, 85d.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIV, 85D.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 33, cat. 100, fig. 22.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 176.2021
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.