COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla tis Malis
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 55, P27
Ware:
Red Polished Black Top
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Body fragment from a small bowl. Incurving to rim. Fine incised decoration with white in-fill. Below rim, horizontal row of hatched lozenges double-framed on all sides, above three horizontal lines. On body, three-line concentric circle motif (slightly more broadly incised) below two vertical framed ladder bands; part of second three-line concentric circle motif above area of double-framed hatching, part of a larger motif. Some brown inclusions. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR5/6, 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: red, white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised