C-Ware bowl C-0277

C-Ware – bowl C-0277

By Droux, Xavier

Naqada
, Tomb N1823.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.491.

Material : Nile silt (Painted)

Decoration

Two perpendicular bands crossing at centre, filled with chevrons in groups. Between them, four groups of two plants each, consisting in a long stem and short leaves on either sides. The base of the plants point toward the centre of the vessel, except for one pair of plants, which rises from the left side of one the crossing bands. Concentric line at rim.

Petrie 1921: pl. XXII, 42D.

Payne 1993: fig. 28, 399.

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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

5.5

Maximum diameter :

15.4

Additional information

Vessel index :

Vi 280

Comments

The rim is more damaged than the rest of the vessel.

References

Price, H.

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Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 138: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1535–N1585, N1700–N1729, N1760–N1854, with gaps), Nubt (foundation deposists), South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).

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

1896

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

, pl. XXVIII, 42.

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

, pl. XXII, 42D.