C-Ware – elliptical bowl C-0419
By Petrie Museum,
Archaeological site unknown
Collection unknownDate : Naqada I
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete
Decoration preservation : Very good
Description
Elliptical ceramic bowl, with everted rounded rim and round base.
Decoration
The bowl is red with a white decoration. The decoration is applied to the inner surface of the vessel. It features a boat with oars seen from a top view, a cross-lined interior, and ticks along the rim. The design is simple yet distinctive, also very well preserved.
Additional information
Open
direct
round base
Inside
References
1952
Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne I: 1; les époques de formation, la préhistoire. Paris
, 281, fig.185.2015
De la figure anthropomorphe prédynastique à l’émergence de l’image de Pharaon: pour une approche transversale de l’imagerie pré- et protodynastique égyptienne (Nagada I-Nagada III, 3900-2700 av. J.-C.). Archéologie et Préhistoire. PHD thesis, University of Strasbourg. Strasbourg
, 1351, VC_IND_004.2021
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.