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Kafkalla

Tomb 34, P67

White Painted III

jar

Almost complete small jar (or bowl). Globular body. Base rounded with flattened, slightly concave area which allows vessel to sit upright. Very short broad neck flaring to rounded rim. High vertical handle from the rim (mostly missing). Smooth unslipped brown surface, decorated with matt red-brown paint. On exterior wavy horizontal line below rim with roughly equally spaced vertical wavy lines pendent to a second horizontal wavy line which follows the edge of the base, the whole schema resembling a net or sling bag. Vertical line on lower area of handle (as preserved). On interior, horizontal wavy line below rim. Surface missing on one side of lower body. Drawn.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: oval -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: high vertical -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: widening -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 55 -- Height - body: 67 -- Height - maximum diameter: 30 -- Diameter - body: 76 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Exterior slip: none -- Paint lustre: matt -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR4/4 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: sm+med -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: poor