C-Ware – beaker C-0312
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1599.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.485.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
In lower par of vessel, continuous series of small upturned triangles filled with chevrons, separated by two horizontal lines from continous series of downturned triangles filled with chevrons below. There are again two horizontal lines separating those from a continuous series of triangles filled with chevrons below. There was likely a horizontal line at bottom of the vessel
Dimensions (cm)
17.6
9.6
Additional information
Vi 55
Comments
1599 written in ink.
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 137: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1490–N1492, N1550–N1559, N1586–N161)]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, (p. 23).1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXIX, 79b.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIV, 79H.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 33, cat. 95, 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
, 399, note 10.