Cemetery:
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Kafkalla tis Malis
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Tomb and Item:
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Tomb 56, P6
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Ware:
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Red Polished Black Top
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Shape:
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bowl
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Notes:
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Rim, handle and upper body fragment of a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Pierced lug handle at the rim. Very thin incised decoration with some white in-fill. Below rim, horizontal wavy line above two horizontal lines. On upper body, two-line concentric circle motif (more broadly incised) beside hatched lozenge, as preserved. On mid-body, framed hatched vertical panel beside horizontal wavy line, above two concentric wavy lines, as preserved. Very fine fabric, fired soft to medium-soft. Drawn.
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Description:
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General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- 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: 2.5YR5/6, 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white, red -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Decoration technique: incised --
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