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Kafkalla

Tomb 34, P114

White Painted V

jar

Rim, neck, handle and body fragment from a small jar. Rounded body. Short broad neck tapering slightly to flaring rounded rim. Horizontal handle on the shoulder (partyl missing). Decorated in slightly lustrous red-brown paint. On inner rim, sets of four parallel angled lines above horizontal line, not well preserved. On exterior, three horizontal lines on the neck. On shoulder, horizontal wavy line above two horizontal lines. On upper body, horizontal wavy line; below handle, three vertical rows of solid lozenges below a horizontal line. Vertical wavy line on surface of handle. Solid paint on sides of handle. Drawn.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, handle+body -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: rectangle -- Handle location: shoulder -- Neck type: upward taper -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 95 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Handle section 1: 9 -- Handle section 2: 13 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10Y7/3 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: dark -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: poor