COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 34, P119
Ware:
White Painted V
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Mended rim, handle, body and base fragment from a small bowl. Hemispherical body, rounded base. Slightly incurving rim, which thins almost to a point with a sharp downward slope to the interior, forming a flattened area. Raised wishbone handle from just below the rim, oval/rectangular in section. Rim very uneven. Fabric predominantly 2.5Y7/3. Decorated in faded matt orange-brown paint. Multiple parallel angled lines on upper and lower surface of handle. Solid paint on sides of handle. On interior, horizontal wavy line on flattened area of rim. On exterior, on upper body, horizontal four-line zigzag with three horizontal lines above and below. On lower body, four parallel vertical lines from below handle to opposite side of vessel. From mid-body on each side, four parallel vertical lines join but do not cross these. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 10 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: pointed -- Base type: round -- Handle type: wishbone -- Handle section: rectangle -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 135 -- Height - full: 94 -- Height to rim: 58 -- Height - maximum diameter: 53 -- Diameter - body: 135 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 10 -- Handle section 2: 14 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5Y7/3 -- Colour interior: 2.5Y7/3 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR5/4 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 2.5Y7/3 -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white, brown -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
