C-Ware – beaker C-0276
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1823.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.470.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
Three vertical series of filled in connected triangles are placed inbetween five vertical panels filled with groups of chevrons. Four of the panels are grouped in two pairs next to one another, and all four panels consist of four groups of downturned chevrons. The single panel if filled with four groups of upturned chevrons, and has has oblique lines added to its top right and left corners. All groups of cherons have four parallel motifs. Inside rim, four groups of 7+6+8+8 parallel vertical lines are painted on the slipped and polished band below the rim
Dimensions (cm)
22.2
12.5
Dbase: 6.6
Additional information
Vi 56
Comments
1823A in pencil on base; 1823 in ink on base.
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 138: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1535–N1585, N1700–N1729, N1760–N1854, with gaps), Nubt (foundation deposists), South Town (tombs, temple), accounting]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, (p. 23).1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXIX, 75a.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIV, 75.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 62, fig. 30, cat. 420.2021
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
, 396, n. 8.