COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 782, P34
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Joining and non-joining rim, body, handle and base fragments from a small tripod bowl. Deep hemispherical body, rounded base with three small feet (one missing). Small pierced lug handle at the rim. Fine incised decoration with traces of white infill. Groups of notches on rim. Below rim, horizontal row of double-framed plain lozenges. On upper body, two-line concentric circles linked by four horizontal lines overlain by equidistant two-line inverted V-shaped motifs. On body, vertically hatched chequerboard above five horizontal lines around edge of base, the latter overlain by four sets of two short vertical zig-zags. Two-line concentric circle motif at centre of base. Two horizontal lines around each foot. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 9 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: foot -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 142 -- Height - full: 105 -- Height to rim: 105 -- Height - body: 95 -- Height - maximum diameter: 85 -- Diameter - body: 152 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: N3/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high
