COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P49
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Non-joining rim, body and handle fragments from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Pierced lug handle from the rim. Incised decoration. On rim, above lug and toward the middle, five short parallel angled lines. Below rim, horizontal row of hatched lozenges. Below this, two-line concentric circle motifs linked by four parallel horizontal lines overlain by a double chevron. On body a three- or more line horizontal chequerboard with vertical hatching. In reserved areas in the upper row, short horizontal single-line zigzags. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 16 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 135 -- Diameter - body: 138 -- Wall below rim: 6 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N3/ -- Colour - fabric: N4/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high
