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Kafkalla

Tomb 34, P108

White Painted IV

large closed

Rim and neck fragment from a large closed vessel. Medium-wide cylindrical neck. Round horizontal mouth with everted flattened rim. Lug or small handle attached at neck-base (missing). Surface encrusted and in part discoloured. Decorated in matt black paint, not well preserved. On rim wavy line between straight lines. Some paint below rim on interior. On exterior, neck divided into two zones by pairs of vertical lines. On side, as preserved, on upper neck, horizontal row of crosshatched upright triangles with three horizontal lines above and three below. On lower neck, another horizontal row of crosshatched upright triangles. Ht of neck 78mm. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Neck type: cylindrical -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 110 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/2 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR5/4 -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium