C-Ware – deep bowl C-0336
By Droux, Xavier
, Archaeological context unknown. 1896 : Antiquities Service excavation.
Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 11517 (JE 31466).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Unknown
Decoration preservation : Unknown
Decoration
A series of six downturned chevrons - each made of four to five parallel lines, and a group of four parallel, oblique lines are painted between the rim and the white-coated bottom of the bowl. Groups of small, downturned, crosshatched triangles hang from the rim above five of the chevrons: one group consists of two triangles, the other four of three triangles each.
Dimensions (cm)
7.5
17
17
Additional information
Open
Vi 227
Oi 100
flat base
Inside
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).