C-Ware – sherd of bowl, rim (?) C-0882
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb 1457.
1930's : Egypt Exploration Society excavation.Collection unknown (293/1457).
Date : Naqada IA–IIB
General range of C-ware production
Material : Nile silt (Painted)
Preservation : Sherd
Decoration preservation : Unknown
Decoration
On the inside, remains of three panels filled with parallel horizontal lines. On the outside, groups of short parallel horizontal lines.
Additional information
Open
unknown
Inside and outside
Comments
In excavation report, the sherd is said to have been donated to the scientific deparment of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Mond & Myers 1937: 189), where scientific analyses were carried out by Dr P.D. Ritchie. In 2015, an exchange with A. Gerstein, curator at the Institute, did not clarify the current whereabout of this sherd. It is not absolutely certain that the Ashmolean sherd of the same type and from the same tomb is different from this sherd, although the discrepancies between the painted pattern on the Ashmolean sherd (C-0043) and the published drawing seem to suggest that it is the case. However, both sherds may have originated from the same vessel.
