C-Ware – slender beaker C-0800
By Droux, Xavier
Archaeological site unknown.
1900 : Donated by Georg Karo who purchased it in Egypt.Florence, Museo Egizio, 8783.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Complete
Decoration preservation : Partly lost
Preservation information :
The surface, especially of the lower part, is heavily eroded.
Decoration
The full extent of the decoration is not known. There are at least two compartments filled with groups of upturned chevrons. They are placed below a double concentric line that runs below the rim, and the vertical divisions between the chevrons consist of double lines. This arrangement, where the space between the doubled lines is quite narrow and not wider than a painted line, is reminiscent of a series of C-ware vessels found at Naqada, and it is possible that this beaker also comes from that site (see Droux 2021).
Dimensions (cm)
16
9.9
9.9
Additional information
Vi 62
Oi 100
flat base
Outside and inside lip
Acknowledgements
We thank Maria Cristina Guidotti and Renée Friedman for forwarding information about this artefact.
References
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
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