COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 787, P107
Ware:
White Slip I
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Medium-sized bowl. Almost complete. Deep hemispherical body, round base. Incurved rounded rim. Horizontal wishbone handle below rim. Slip worn on parts of rim. Decorated in matt red-orange paint. Below rim, four parallel horizontal lines on each side of body from handle to frontal panel. Below, narrow vertical framed ladder bands. At frontal panel two lines below rim. Below, narrow vertical framed crosshatched band with diverging fringed lines above; to either side narrow vertical ladder band above a horizontal ladder band. Below handle, two vertical framed ladder bands and one horizontal framed ladder band. Centre of base undecorated. On surface of handle three narrow ladder bands in longitudinal alignment with handle. Band around each handle/body join. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 5 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: wishbone -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 164 -- Height - full: 98 -- Height to rim: 98 -- Height - maximum diameter: 80 -- Diameter - body: 108 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 13 -- Handle section 2: 11 -- Exterior slip: thick -- Interior slip: thick -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Interior lustre: slight? -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N7/ -- Colour interior: N7/ -- Colour - paint: 10R4/4, 10R5/4 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR4/6 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white, grey -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
