COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 782, P28
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Two non-joining rim, handle, body and base fragments from a small bowl. Over half preserved. Hemispherical body, rounded base. Incurved rounded rim. Small pierced lug handle at the rim. Fine incised decoration with white infill. Below rim, horizontal wavy line above a horizontal row of framed hatched lozenges with two horizontal lines above and three below. On body, three-line concentric semicircle motifs (broadly drawn) connected by pairs of horizontal framed crosshatched bands. Six encircling lines around edge of base. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 3 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 110 -- Height - full: 50 -- Height to rim: 50 -- Height - maximum diameter: 40 -- Diameter - body: 114 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: N4/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium
