C-Ware – sherd of fancy-shaped vessel C-0315
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1591.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.471.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Decoration
Two pairs of triangles facing one another, filled with chevrons; double horizontal lines above, single line below; the two pairs are contiguous on one side, but there is an narrow empty space on the other; same vessel as C-0252?
Comments
1591 inscribed both in pencil and in ink on the object.
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 137: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N1490–N1492, N1550–N1559, N1586–N161)]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, (p. 19).1896
Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London
, pl. XXIX, 85b.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XXIV, 85B.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 33, cat. 98, 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.