COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P50
Ware:
Black Polished
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Mended rim, body, handle and base fragment from a small bowl. Marked carination on lower body. Round base. Incurved flattened rim. Handle inserted through vessel wall, now missing (knob lug or horizontal loop?). Incised decoration in two registers. On rim, a faintly incised zig-zag interrupted by sets of parallal angled lines. On upper body equidistant three-line concentric circle motifs, interspersed, alternately, with four-row hatched chequerboards and three-line horizontal zig-zags. Two parallel horizontal lines above, three below. On lower body (from carination), the same motifs are repeated. Three parallel horizontal lines around edge of base. Drawn. Sampled by Maria Dikomitou, 2006.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, base, body -- Joins: 18 -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: flattened -- Base type: round -- Handle type: ? -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 140 -- Height - full: 82 -- Height to rim: 82 -- Height - maximum diameter: 40 -- Diameter - body: 141 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N3/ -- Colour interior: N4/ -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: soft -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high
