COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 787, P28
Ware:
Red Polished III
Shape:
jug
Notes:
Rim and upper neck fragment from a jug. Round horizontal mouth with wide everted flattened mouth rim. Narrow neck. Vertical handle (missing) from the rim, pushed into and penetrating lower surface of rim. Fine incised decoration with white infill. On upper neck four or more horizontal lines. On rim, alternating arrangement of ten concentric chevrons, framed vertical crosshatched bands and two-row vertical hatched chequerboards (probably originally two of each). Not drawn.
Description:
General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: ? -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Wall below rim: 5.5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high
