C-Ware bowl C-0257

C-Ware – bowl C-0257

By Droux, Xavier

Naqada

, Tomb N1591.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.493.

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Decoration

Double concentric lines at rim; below, four downturned triangles filled with chevrons; below each of three of these is a large downturned crosshatched chevron-motif. There are three upturned triangles filled with chevrons rising from a double line at the bottom; they are placed between the crosshatched chevron, but one is connected to the tip of one of the downturned triangles.

Petrie 1921: pl. XXI, 24.

Payne 1993: fig. 27, 394.

Tomb 1591

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© Xavier Droux, courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

© Xavier Droux, courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

8.4

Maximum diameter :

18.6

Additional information

Vessel index :

Vi 221

Comments

1591 written in ink on base of vessel.

References

Quibell , J. E.

1894–1895

Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 137: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1490–N1492, N1550–N1559, N1586–N161)]. Petrie Museum, UCL

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

1896

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

, pl. XXVIII, 24.

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

1993

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

, 59, cat. 394, fig. 27.

Cite this Page

Droux, X. 2022. C-0257, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/C-0257. retrieved 01 September 2026.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director