COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 34, P115
Ware:
White Painted IV
Shape:
large closed
Notes:
Joining and non-joining rim, neck and body fragments of a large closed vessel. Medium-wide neck tapering to round horizontal mouth with everted flattened rim. Decorated with slightly lustrous black paint. On the rim crosshatched triangles with a double border on the left side, between horizontal lines. On the interior, below the rim a straight and wavy horizontal line. On the exterior neck, a horizontal wavy line; three horizontal lines; two and a half horizontal rows of crosshatched lozenges; three horizontal lines; a horizontal wavy line; a broader horizontal line and a horizontal row of upright crosshatched triangles beside a vertical line. On the body, horizontal and vertical panels of linked crosshatched lozenges; horizontal rows of crosshatched upright triangles with a double border on the left side; sets of three horizontal lines and vertical solid and crosshatched bands. Arrangement and orientation uncertain. Interior of neck slipped. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, body -- Joins: 10 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Neck type: upward taper -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 100 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/3 -- Colour - paint: 7.5YR3/1 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR7/6 -- Colour - core: light -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
