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Cemetery: 
Cyprus Museum
Tomb and Item: 
1962/V-24/4
Ware: 
Red Polished I-II
Shape: 
bowl
Notes: 
Mended, almost complete small bowl. Deep rounded body. Rounded base, slightly flattened allowing the vessel to stand. Horn lug on upper body, pierced horizontally at body join (length 22mm; diameter at end 9mm). Rim damaged and worn, but probably flat. Medium to highly lustrous exterior. Fired black on the interior and on the exterior to 50mm below rim. Lower body and base red-brown. Not decorated. Drawn.
Description: 
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 4 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horn lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 95 -- Height - full: 81 -- Height - maximum diameter: 64 -- Diameter - body: 100 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 8 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR4/6, 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: grey -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: ?