C-Ware – sherd of bowl, rim C-0872
By Droux, Xavier
, Settlement HK59A (kiln), surface find.
1982 : Hierakonpolis Expedition excavation.Egypt (Find 108).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Sherd
Decoration preservation : Mostly faded
Preservation information :
Three mended sherds; 23% of rim preserved.
Description
Waster from failed firing process, with burnt matter and surface.
Decoration
Horizontal line painted at rim. Remains of two downturned triangles filled with chevrons. The best-preserved triangle contains a series of four chevrons separated from another series of seven chevrons by an empty space. At its tip, the triangle is connected to the tip of an upturned triangle filled with chevrons, of which only one is clearly visible. The triangle to the left contains a series of at least three chevrons separated from another series of eight chevrons by an empty space.
Dimensions (cm)
13
13
18.5 x 8.5
Additional information
Open
Oi 100
Inside
Comments
At least another vessel with similar designs was present in the assemblage recovered from HK59A; it has a different diameter to this vessel.
Acknowledgements
We thank Renée Friedman for facilitating the study of this artefact.
References
1994
Predynastic settlement ceramics of Upper Egypt : a comparative study of the ceramics of Hemamieh, Nagada, and Hierakonpolis. PhD thesis, University of California. Berkeley
, tab. 9.6, fig. 9.8..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.
