COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 764, P27
Ware:
Red Polished III
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim, handle and upper body fragment from a large bowl (or possibly wide-mouthed jar). Incurved rounded rim. Large ledge handle, set at an angle below rim, pierced twice vertically. Incised decoration with some white infill. Below rim, three parallel horizontal lines. On edge of handle, sets of oppositely angled lines. On lower surface of handle, a horizontally hatched framed horizontal zigzag band, above two horizontal lines with three sets of six parallel horizontal lines arranged vertically, between and to either side of perforations. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: large open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced ledge -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 300-400 -- Wall below rim: 6 -- Wall - body: 13 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10R5/8 -- Colour interior: 10R5/8 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4-7/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white, red -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium
