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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.
1905: pl. 20, no. 11517.
Dimensions (cm)
Height :
7.5
Maximum diameter :
17
Rim diameter :
17
Additional information
Form :
Open
Vessel index :
Vi 227
Opening index :
Oi 100
Shape of base:
flat base
Decoration location :
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).