Fake – C-ware, elliptical bowl FAK-0004
By Droux, Xavier
Archaeological site unknown.
1900–1901 : Gift of the Cairo Museum to Schaparelli.Turin, Fondazione Museo delle Egizie, S.01827.
Material : Nile silt (Genuine vessel, forged decoration)
Preservation : Intact
Decoration
Fake decoration consisting of two men holding a bow in one hand, and each leading a series of bound antelopes. Concentric "floor" line with semi-circular and other designs below. Series of ticks, dots, semi-circular motifs and "plant" motifs at rim. Two "fish" at bottom.
Dimensions (cm)
5.3
17.2
14.1
17.2
Additional information
Open
Vi 325
Oi 100
direct
round base
Comments
In Droux (2021: 304–305, note 7), the vessel was published with the inventory number C-0472..
Acknowledgements
We thank the staff of the collection management office at the Museo Egizio for facilitating access to this artefact.
References
2010
L'iconographie de la chasse dans le contexte social prédynastique. Archéo-Nil 20
, 117, 120, fig. 31.2012
Visual representation and state development in Egypt. Archéo-Nil 22
, 58–9, fig. 27.2015
De la figure anthropomorphe prédynastique à l’émergence de l’image de Pharaon: pour une approche transversale de l’imagerie pré- et protodynastique égyptienne (Nagada I-Nagada III, 3900-2700 av. J.-C.). Archéologie et Préhistoire. PHD thesis, University of Strasbourg. Strasbourg
, 1349, VC_IND_002.2021
A hippopotamus in a dish: Predynastic bowl Cairo Museum JE 85928 and aspects of hippopotamus symbolism in predynastic Egypt, in: Buchez, N. & Tristant, Y. (eds.), Rochecouste, O. (coll.), Égypte Antérieure. Mélanges de préhistoire et d’archéologie offerts à Béatrix Midant-Reynes par ses étudiants, collègues et amis, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 304. Leuven
, 304–305, note 7.