C-Ware – bowl C-0475
By Droux, Xavier
Archaeological site unknown.
1900–1901 : Bought by Schiaparelli.Turin, Fondazione Museo delle Egizie, S.396.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete
Decoration preservation : Partly lost
Preservation information :
The bottom of the interior is heavily eroded. A long chip is missing at the rim, where a large area of the surface flaked off inside. Part of the exterior and most of the base are also eroded.
Description
The bottom of the vessel was either left unpolished or coated in white.
Decoration
One, possibly two concentric lines are painted at the rim. Inside: series of five downturned chevrons filled with crosshatching. On the outside are several motifs, including two similar vertical pairs of triangles: each pair consits of a vertical series of triangles that point toward the left next to a series of triangles that point toward the right; all these triangles are hatched. The the left are two groups of three parallel lines each, one oblique, the other horizontal. In the remaining space to the left is a partly-preserved curved motif that may be overimposed by smaller rounded motifs; this may perhaps be a plant motif.
Dimensions (cm)
6.7
11.6
11.6
Base diameter: 5.2
Additional information
Open
Vi 173
Oi 100
concave base
Inside and outside
Comments
Green traces are can be noticed on the exterior, base, and interior.
Acknowledgements
We thank the staff of the collection management office at the Museo Egizio for facilitating access to this artefact.
References
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
, 396, n. 8.