C-Ware – sherd of bowl, body C-0604
By Droux, Xavier
, Cemetery HK6, square G13, locus 208; vicinity of Tomb 48.
2011 : Hierakonpolis Expedition excavation.Egypt (11-351).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Sherds
Decoration preservation : Good
Preservation information :
Two mended sherds.
Decoration
Thre are remains of at least three parallel series of crescents, with part of human hand or animal claw (?) preserved at the extremity of the sherd.
Dimensions (cm)
6 x 3.4
Additional information
Open
not preserved
Inside
Acknowledgements
We thank Renée Friedman for facilitating the study of this artefact.
References
2016
Putting the Hierakonpolis C-ware on the Map. Nekhen News 28
, 16 (fig. HK6, 2nd row, right).2017
The elite predynastic cemetery at Hierakonpolis HK6: 2011–2015 progress report, in: Midant-Reynes, Beatrix; Tristan, Yann (eds); Ryan E.M. (ass), Egypt at its origins 5: proceedings of the Fifth International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Cairo, 13th–18th April 2014. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 260. Leuven
, fig. 4c.