C-Ware – beaker C-0281
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb B102.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.469.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
The decoration consists of a plant motif inamong groups of oblique lines arranged along vertical lines. The plant itself ressembles the other motifs; it has one long stem, with 4 groups of "leaves" on both sides; these leaves are schematic and limited to group of three, four, and two parallel oblique lines. On the opposite side to the plant is a narrow empty vertical space between two horizontal lines. The other groups of oblique lines have all four to five lines, with one exception (three lines). Inside lip, six groups of vertical lines, each with four, five, or six lines.
Dimensions (cm)
11.7
12.7
Additional information
Vi 109
Comments
B102 inscribed in ink on the vessel.
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 70: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N501–N573, with gaps), Cemetery B (tombs B65, B86–B134, with gaps), Cemetery T (tomb T57)]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, (p. 73).1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXIX, 54.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIII, 53.1952
Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne I: 1; les époques de formation, la préhistoire. Paris
, 269, fig. 172.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 61, cat. 408, fig. 29.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 107.2021
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
, 393, n.4.