C-Ware – sherd C-0613
By Droux, Xavier
, Cemetery HK6, vicinity of Tomb 48.
2011 : Hierakonpolis Expedition excavation.Egypt (11-388).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Sherd
Decoration preservation : Very good
Description
The interior surface is not slipped nor polished.
Decoration
Remains of figural decoration, too small to identify with certainty. Parts of two crosshatched areas are preserved; one has a continuous series of ticks along its edge, and may possibly be part of the neck or back of an animal (?).
Additional information
Closed
not preserved
Outside
Acknowledgements
We thank Renée Friedman for facilitating the study of this artefact.
References
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. 4a.