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Kafkalla

Tomb 215, P28

White Painted II

jug

Mended jug, almost complete. Ovoid body, heavy rounded base. Narrow neck tapering to cutaway mouth, mostly missing. Vertical handle, oval in section, from rim to shoulder, inserted through wall at lower end. Small pierced lug at neck-base opposite handle. Decorated in medium lustrous orange-brown paint. Multiple horizontal lines around neck, to either side of a vertical band above lug. Handle decoration unclear (vertical zigzag, wavy line or parallel angled lines). On body four broad double-framed crosshatched panels, widening downward. In between, on rear of body, a two-line vertical zig-zag, and on front of body a vertical wavy line. On lower body three broad encircling lines. Solid circle on base. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, neck, body, base -- Joins: 16 -- Mouth type: cut-away -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: ? -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: low vertical -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: upward taper -- Lug type: pierced -- Lug number: 1 -- Height - body: 135 -- Height - maximum diameter: 60 -- Diameter - body: 125 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 7 -- Wall - base: 7 -- Handle section 1: 10 -- Handle section 2: 14 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Paint lustre: medium -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 7.5YR6/4, 7.5YR6/6 -- Colour - paint: 7.5YR5/4 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5Y6/2 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: high