COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla tis Malis
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 56, P31
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
dish
Notes:
Almost complete, mended dish. Shallow body, broad rounded base. Incurving rounded rim, mostly missing. Small low projection on rim. Well-executed incised decoration with some white in-fill. Three horizontal lines below rim. On body vertical framed crosshatched bands on each side of body joining broader horizontal framed crosshatched bands and a central framed band of hatched lozenges. Very fine to fine fabric, fired soft to medium-soft. Light grey fabric, 10YR7/4 in places. Some brown inclusions. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, base, body -- Joins: 5 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Rim projection: single plain -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 120 -- Height - full: 45 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 9 -- Wall - base: 9 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white, red -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised
