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Kafkalla

Tomb 185, P21

White Painted III

jug

Joining and non-joining rim, neck and upper body fragments from a jug. Medium-wide neck, cutaway mouth. Vertical handle, now missing, from the rim. Small partially pierced projection on either side of mouth rim. Fine to very fine fabric with burnt out organics. Surface worn and abraded. Decorated in faint or missing matt red-brown paint. Two sets of three and one set of two horizontal lines on neck and mouth. Horizontal line at neck-base above a vertical wavy line and crosshatched panels on upper body. Elsewhere on body (on non-joining sherd) a vertical panel of interleaved hatched triangles beside a vertical wavy line. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, body -- Joins: 15 -- Mouth type: cut-away -- Rim course: straight -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: upward taper -- Rim projection: single -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: worn -- Exterior lustre: ? -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: ? -- Colour - paint: 10R5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: light -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: brown -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium