C-Ware – rattle C-0324
By Droux, Xavier
, Archaeological context unknown. 1896 : Antiquities Service excavation.Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 11504 (JE 31471bis).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration preservation : Very good
Description
The object is pear-shaped and pierced by three holes (one on the flat of the narrow end, and two on opposite sides of the narrow end), perhaps for suspension. It is hollow and contains small, moving elements, perhaps small stones. Predynastic rattles may have mimmicked dried melons, their loose seeds inside rattling naturally.
Decoration
The rattle is entirely covered with polka dots.
Dimensions (cm)
8
Additional information
Closed
Outside
Comments
Quibell (1905) listed the provenance of this artefact as Saghel el-Baglia, without suggesting that this provenance had been used erroneously, instead of Gebel el-Tarif. This is however likely the case. See de Morgan (1896, 1897).
References
1896
Recherches sur les origines de l'Egypte I: l'âge de la pierre et les métaux. Paris
, 87.1897
Recherches sur les origines de l'Egypte II: éthnographie préhistorique et tombeau royal de Négadah. Paris
, 34.1905
Archaic objects. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Egyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Cairo
, 104, no. 11504, pl. 19.2010
The Early Dynastic origin of the water-lily motif, Chronique d'Égypte LXXXV (169-170)
, 23-4, note 51, no. 7.2021
A hippopotamus in a dish: Predynastic bowl Cairo Museum JE 85928 and aspects of hippopotamus symbolism in predynastic Egypt, in: Buchez, N. & Tristant, Y. (eds.), Rochecouste, O. (coll.), Égypte Antérieure. Mélanges de préhistoire et d’archéologie offerts à Béatrix Midant-Reynes par ses étudiants, collègues et amis, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 304. Leuven
, 316–317, note 23.