C-Ware – bowl C-0279
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1828.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.488.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
Inside: concentric line at rim; below, two vertical panels filled with upturned cherons, separated by a narrow empty band. On either side of this group, a narrow band separates the panels from the next vertical line, from which stem series of oblique strokes; Thre are four vertical plant, consisting of long stems with leaves on either sides; the tip of the outermost leaves of this group connect to the oblique strokes. There are additionaly two pairs of vertical stroke, near one another, in the band to the left of the vertical panels.
Outside: bird facing left, painted in an oblique way, with its legs toward the back of the body.
Dimensions (cm)
6.7
15.2
Dbase: 4.7 cm
Additional information
Vi 227
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Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 138: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1535–N1585, N1700–N1729, N1760–N1854, with gaps), Nubt (foundation deposists), South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. 24).1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXVIII, 2.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXII, 43D.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 60, cat. 400, fig. 28.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, 208, cat. 45.2024
The ostrich in predynastic and early dynastic bird representations, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 743.