COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 782, P27
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim, body and base fragment from a small bowl. Deep hemispherical body, rounded base. Incurved rounded rim. Very fine complex incised decoration with traces of white infill. Below rim, groups of ten short parallel angled lines equidistant around vessel with four horizontal lines above and four below. On body, to edge of base, eight double-framed vertical bands wth various fill motifs; one with interleaved hatched triangles, four with crosshatching and three with ladder pattern. Horiozntal line encircling edge of base. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, body, base -- Joins: 2 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 104 -- Height to rim: 60 -- Height - maximum diameter: 50 -- Diameter - body: 108 -- Exterior slip: thick -- Interior slip: thick -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: N4/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high
