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Kafkalla

Tomb 34, P127

Red Polished III

jug

Joining and non-joining rim, and neck fragments from a large jug. Medium-wide neck tapering to tall cutaway mouth. Low vertical handle from the rim (missing). Small unpierced lug on front of neck on cutaway spout, upper neck and at neck-base (the latter two broken away). Incised, impressed and relief decoratiion. On front of neck vertical relief band decorated with sets of oppositely angled incisions and groups of small impressed dots, arranged vertically in varying numbers. To either side a two-line vertical incised zig-zag with a single dot at each angle between vertical wavy lines in relief. Set of three parallel horizontal lines in relief on underside of cutaway spout and on neck at level of handle join. Vertical wavy lines on upper spout to rim. Slipped on interior of neck. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck -- Joins: 14 -- Mouth type: cut-away -- Rim course: straight -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle section: round -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: upward taper -- Lug type: unpierced -- Lug number: 3 -- Wall below rim: 8 -- Wall - body: 9 -- Exterior slip: worn -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10R3/6, 10R4/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: light -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, grey, red -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: rep+inc+imp -- Decoration quality: medium