C-Ware – elliptical bowl C-0431
By Droux, Xavier
Archaeological site unknown
London, Petrie Museum, UC 15331.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Almost complete
Decoration preservation : Partially faded
Preservation information :
Chips at rim.
Decoration
Two narrow, hatched bands are painted at the extremities of the bowl. Along the edges stand four animals that seem to all face toward the same extremity of the vessel. They are all extremely stylised, which renders their identification somewhat uncertain. However, it seems likely that there is a bull on each side, as indicated by the forward-projecting crescent-shaped horns. The two animals that follow them seem to be hunting dogs attacking them from behind.
Dimensions (cm)
2.7
14.6
14.6
Additional information
Vi 541
Oi 100
flat base
Inside
References
1920
Prehistoric Egypt. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account, twenty-third year, 1917. London
, pl. XVI, 66.1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. XX, 6L.1952
Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne I: 1; les époques de formation, la préhistoire. Paris
, 273, fig. 174.2009
Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I–Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6. Leuven
, cat. 1.2012
Some new hunting scenes in predynastic C-wares: London Petrie Museum UC15331 and Oxford Ashmolean Museum 1946.297 'revisited'. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 139
, pl. XXVIII a-c, XXIX, a-b.2019
Le taureau à l’époque prédynastique et son importance pour le développement de l’iconographie royale – avec un excursus sur l’origine du sceptre héqa, in: Aufrère, Sydney (ed.), Les taureaux de l’Égypte ancienne. Publication éditée à l’occasion de la 14e Rencontre d’égyptologie de Nîmes. Égyptonimes 2
, 39.