COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P71
Ware:
White Painted IV
Shape:
jug
Notes:
Rim and neck fragment from a jug. Tall cutaway mouth with three small unpierced lugs on rim on either side. Handle broken away at rim join. Small unpierced lug on either side of the neck and one at neck base. Decorated in medium lustrous red-brown paint. Five parallel lines on upper mouth, four on lower mouth. Five parallel lines on neck, one at neck base. Solid paint on mouth rim. Slipped and painted also inside mouth. Not drawn.
Description:
General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck -- Mouth type: cut-away -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: low vertical -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: upward taper -- Lug number: 9 -- Rim projection: single plain -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Paint lustre: medium -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10 YR 7/6 -- Colour - paint: 7.5 YR 5/4, 2.5 YR 4/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5 YR 6/6 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
