COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla tis Malis
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 55, P17
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, two roughly parallel horizontal wavy lines, thinly incised. Below, horizontal row of hatched lozenges, double-framed on the left side only, with two horizontal lines above and two below. On body, eight-line horizontal zig-zag with three-line concentric circle motifs in the upper interstices and two-line concentric circle motif in the lower interstice, as preserved. Circles only slightly thicker (if at all) than other incision. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 120 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: grey -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised
