C-Ware – elliptical bowl C-0555
By Droux, Xavier
Archaeological site unknown.
Gift Louis Lortet.Lyon, Musée des Confluences, 90000135.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration preservation : Faded
Preservation information :
The decoration is mostly visible as a ghost impression on the polished background.
Decoration
A hartebeest occupies most of the decorative space and faces right. It has a long neck with a chest mane, lyre-shaped horns, four straight legs, and a long tail. Its body is filled with groups of oblique parallel strokes. A tassel-design of four undulating lines is painted in front of its muzzle, and “hangs” from the rim. Ten downturned, hashed triangles complete the decoration.
Dimensions (cm)
4
13.5
10
13.5
Additional information
Open
Vi 338
Oi 100
flat base
Inside
References
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2010
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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
, 173, pl. XXX, c.2015
Riverine and desert animals in predynastic Upper Egypt: material culture and faunal remains. Dphil thesis, University of Oxford. Oxford
, cat. 1.25.2021
Chiefs, bound captives, and harpooned hippopotamuses: an exceptional unpublished C-ware vessel in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (inv. 900.2.13). Archéo-Nil 31
, 50–3, fig. 9b, table 3, no. 8.