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Kafkalla

Tomb 215, P61

Red Polished III

small closed

Mended rim, neck and body fragment of a small flask or juglet. Ovoid body, probably rounded base. Tall narrow neck, tapering to round horizontal mouth with everted flattened downsloping rim. Handle area not preserved. Thin incised decoration wioth white in-fill, possibly in part executed with a four-pronged tool. On rim, as preserved, two sets of seven parallel vertical lines. On neck equidistant sets of four vertical lines framed on upper neck and at neck-base by four horizontal lines. On upper and mid-body panels of one or two vertical rows of hatched framed lozenges, bounded on each side by four parallel vertical wavy lines. Lower body undecorated. Drawn.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, body -- Joins: 31 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Neck type: upward taper -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 60 -- Diameter - body: 107 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5YR5/6, 5YR6/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/6 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high