C-Ware – rattle C-0264
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1613.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.467.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
Two vertical plants on opposed sides of the object, each consisting in a long vertical stem and fairly long leaves; between those, on one side, vertical row of triangles pointing alternatively to the right and to the left; on the other side, vertical single zigzag
Dimensions (cm)
12
5.6
D top: 1.5
Additional information
Vi 47
Comments
The object is pierced through by a longitudinal hole in its upper part, which was made by poking a reed twice; there is a vertical hole, also made before firing, at the top of the object, which does not reach the longitudinal hole. Neither pierced hole consitutes an opening into the inside of the object. Some undertermined material inside the object can be heard when the object is moved.
References
1894–1895
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.1952
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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
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