C-Ware – fancy-shaped beaker C-0282
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb B102.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.478.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
On each of the beakers, in their lower part, series of four alternating upturned and donwtured triangles, all filled with chevrons. Unusually, these chevrons do not connect at their tip. There are two horizontal lines, both above and below these triangles. On basal part of the vessel, on both sides, group of three white-filled upturned connected triangles, with additional horizontal line below them.
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Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 70: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N501–N573, with gaps), Cemetery B (tombs B65, B86–B134, with gaps), Cemetery T (tomb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
, 23, pl. XXIX, 86.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIV, 84.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 33, cat. 96, fig. 22.2021
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, note 4, 396–400, note 10, fig. 3e.
