COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla tis Malis
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 56, P52
Ware:
White Painted III
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim, handle and body fragment from a small deep bowl or cup. Globular body, rounded base. Flaring rounded rim. High vertical handle, oval in section, from the rim. Interior not well smoothed. Decorated in red-brown paint with a slight to medium lustre. On interior, horizontal wavy line below rim. Solid paint on rim. Two-line vertical zig-zag on surface of handle; solid paint on sides of handle. On exterior, below rim, horizontal band. On body, horizontal row of hatched triangles, double-framed to the left only, above a horizontal line, with small circles with central dots in the interstices. On lower body/base, groups of vertical lines. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 2 -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: high vertical -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 35 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Handle section 1: 9 -- Handle section 2: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour interior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/6-6/6 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted
