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C-Ware – Bottle C-0881
By Droux, Xavier
, North cemetery (west part).
1930–1935 : Italian Archaeological Mission excavation.Turin, Fondazione Museo delle Egizie, P.8006.
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Almost complete
Decoration preservation : Mostly lost
Preservation information :
Rim damaged (75% preserved), with three small sherds reattached and some missing. Almost one half of the surface is abraded and the decoration lost. Base damaged. If there was any decoration on the inside of the lip, it is not preserved.
Decoration
The decoration is most likely a spirale with short oblique parlalel strokes forming at least 6 'rows'.
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Dimensions (cm)
Height :
24.6
Maximum diameter :
10.7
Rim diameter :
9
Other dimensions :
Base diameter: 8
Additional information
Form :
Closed
Vessel index :
Vi 43
Opening index :
Oi 84
Decoration location :
Outside
Comments
A paper tag is glued on the base, with the number "48" written in ink on it. It probably refers to Farina's numbering, perhaps a tomb number..
Acknowledgements
We thank the staff of the collection management office at the Museo Egizio for facilitating access to this artefact.
References
Not previously published.
