C-Ware – beaker C-0280
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb U-13.
1910–1911 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, MH 1911.13.A.A.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Almost complete
Decoration preservation : Very good
Preservation information :
Part of the rim is missing
Description
Black-topped vessel with white-painted decoration. The decoration does not encroach over the upper, black part.
Decoration
Two continuous rows of zizag. The upper one consists of two parallel, small zigzags. The lower one consists of three paralle, large zizgags.
Dimensions (cm)
18.4
8.9
8.9
Additional information
Open
Vi 48
Oi 100
flat base
Outside
Comments
This vessel is dated to Naqada IA-IB by Hartmann.
References
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
, 399, note 10.