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Kafkalla tis Malis

Tomb 55, P44

White Painted IV

juglet

Rim, neck and handle fragment from a juglet. Narrow neck, tapering to round horizontal mouth with flat rim. Small pierced lug on either side at mid-neck and at neck-base on front of vessel. Vertical handle, with pierced projection or thumb-grip at the apex, from lower neck (mostly missing). Neck applied as a narrow cylinder, with a thick layer of additional clay applied over the neck/body join. Decorated in matt red-brown paint. Horizontal band inside rim. Pairs of oppositely angled lines on rim. On neck, multiple horizontal lines with a vertical line on front and rear. Angled lines on surface of handle. Drawn.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, handle -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle location: lower neck -- Handle projection present -- Neck type: upward taper -- Lug type: pierced -- Lug number: 3 -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 37 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted