COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 772, P2
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Fine incised decoration with white infill. Below rim, horizontal zig-zag with upper interstices hatched. Below, five horizontal lines overlain with occasional sets of two angled lines. On upper body an angled vertical framed hatched band overlain with occasional angled lines, pendent from horizontal lines below rim. To one side an isolated two-line concentric circle motif (incised with a broad flat tool) with small hatched lozenges/rectangles as fillers. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: <100? -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR4/0-3/0 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: fine
