C-Ware – bowl on foot C-0360
By Osmani, Diona
Archaeological site unknown
Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E. 2988.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Decoration
The vessel stands on a circular pedestal. The interior of the bowl is decorated with three vertical plants. On the outside, four ibexes, only partly preserved, face right and follow one another. They have long backward curving horns and short tails. Their bodies are partly filled with lines. A dog, with a curled tail, faces them. A boat with 12 oars, seen in top view, is placed between the backs of the dog and of the left-most ibex. Two of the oars are erased, situated at the end of the boat, second from the last, on both sides. The base of the vessel is entirely coated in white paint.
Dimensions (cm)
9.9
12.8
Additional information
Open
Vi 129
direct
on foot
Inside and outside
References
2010
L'iconographie de la chasse dans le contexte social prédynastique. Archéo-Nil 20
, 110–1, fig. 10.2021
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
, 394, table 1.2021
L'image comme vecteur de discours idéologique: analyse diachronique des représentations de bateau dans l'art pré- et protodynastique, in: Köhler, E. Christiana; Kuch, Nora; Junge, Friederike (eds), Egypt at its Origins 6: proceedings of the sixth International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Vienna, 10th–15th September 2017. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 303. Leuven
, 766, note 2.