C-Ware – fancy-shaped beaker C-0706
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb N1681.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.342.
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Description
This is a Black-topped vessel with applied white decorations. The base is hollow so that there is a communication between the two beakers.
It is certain that the vessel was painted before firing since there is no paint inside cracks that formed during the firing process.
Decoration
The lower part is thoroughly coated in white paint.
Dimensions (cm)
23.2
25.3
8.9
L of base: 17.5; W of base: 7.0; H of shorter beaker: 22.3; Diameters: 8.0 and 8.3 cm
Additional information
Closed
Vi 38
flat base
Outside
Comments
Number "1681" written in balck ink on the object.
Acknowledgements
We thank Liam McNamara for facilitating the study of this artefact.
References
1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 33, cat. 103, fig. 22.2021
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
, 399, note 10.