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Kafkalla

Tomb 215, P30

White Painted III

jug

Mended neck, body, handle and base fragment of a small jug. Ovoid body, rounded base. Narrow neck. Vertical handle, largely missing, round in section, inserted through wall at lower end. Pierced lug at neck-base opposite handle. Decorated in slightly lustrous orange-brown paint. Multiple horizontal lines on the neck, as preserved. Vertical line on surface of handle, as preserved. On body, three broad rectangular double-framed crosshatched panels, alternating with three vertical wavy lines. Four or more encircling lines on base. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: neck, handle, body, base -- Joins: 9 -- Base type: round -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle section: round -- Lug type: pierced -- Lug number: 1 -- Height - body: 135 -- Diameter - body: 135 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Wall - base: 5 -- Handle section 1: 11 -- Handle section 2: 11 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - paint: 5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium