C-Ware – sherd, type uncertain, body C-0615
By Droux, Xavier
, Cemetery HK6, 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 : Sherd
Decoration preservation : Very good
Description
The interior surface is not slipped nor polished.
Decoration
Remains of figural decoration, too small to identify. Two lines, one of which is clearly bent, have rounded protuberances along one of their edges. They may belong to the figure of an animal (?).
Dimensions (cm)
1.4 x 2.2
Additional information
Closed
not preserved
Outside
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, top, 2nd from left, bottom).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.