COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla tis Malis
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 56, P61
Ware:
White Painted IV
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim, body and handle fragment of a small bowl. Flaring rounded rim. High vertical handle, oval in section, with knob at apex, from the rim. Fired medium-soft to medium-hard. Some brown inclusions. Painted decoration, visible only as a reddish shadow. No decoration on interior. On exterior, crosshatched triangle on upper body. Two-line vertical zig-zag on surface of handle. Interior not well smoothed. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: high vertical -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: from rim -- Handle projection present -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/3 -- Colour interior: 10YR8/3 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: red, white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted