COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P39
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Joining and non-joining rim, body and base fragments from a small bowl. Hemispherical body, tripod base. Incurved rounded rim. Pierced lug handle from the rim. Maximum diameter of feet 17.5mm. Height 15mm. Neatly incised decoration in three horizontal registers separated by triple horizontal lines. From below rim, three parallel horizontal lines; two-line concentric circle motifs linked by vertically hatched horizontal band; three parallel horizontal lines; horizontal five-line zig-zag with isolated hatched lozenges in the interstices above and below; three parallel horizontal lines; vertical framed horizontally hatched bands alternating with isolated two-line concentric circle motifs. Two concentric lines around the upper part of each foot, linked by six parallel lines. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 19 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: tripod -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 160 -- Height - full: 116 -- Height to rim: 116 -- Height - body: 93 -- Height - maximum diameter: 87 -- Diameter - body: 168 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N3/ -- Colour interior: N3/ -- Colour - fabric: N4/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white, brown -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high
