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Kafkalla

Tomb 781, P25

White Slip II

jar

Rim, neck and upper body fragment of a medium-sized closed vessel, probably a jar. Short broad neck widening to a round horizontal mouth. Slightly flaring flattened rim. Thick white slip across whole of interior. Decorated in matt red-brown to dark grey/black paint. Solid band on rim. On upper and lower neck horizontal framed crosshatched bands. Below neck/body join, on upper shoulder, a horizontal wavy line between straight lines. Below, vertical crosshatched bands(?) to break. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, body -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: flattened -- Neck type: widening -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 110 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: thick -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5Y8/3 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR4/6-3/0 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR4/6 -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium