COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P56
Ware:
White Painted IV
Shape:
large closed
Notes:
Eleven body sherds, forming ten non-joining fragments from a large closed vessel. Decorated with finely-painted crossing bands of five to six thin parallel lines (Cross-line Style). Orange surface, orange-red paint. Not drawn. Sampled by Maria Dikomitou, 2006.
Description:
General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: body -- Joins: 11 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Paint lustre: medium -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR3/4 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white, grey -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
