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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P99

White Painted Wheelmade III

flask

Rim, neck, handle and body fragment from a small flask. Lentoid body, probably round base. Tall narrow neck tapering to thick everted indented mouth rim. Opposed vertical strap handles from rim to shoulder, not inserted through wall at lower end. Neck inserted into body. Small red/brown and black and some medium white inclusions in fabric. Decorated in faded matt red-brown to dark brown paint. Probably multiple horizontal lines on neck. Parallel slightly angled lines on surface of handle. Two large concentric circles on each side of body, as preserved. Multiple horizontal lines on side of body, below preserved handle. Copy of a two-handled lenticular flask of Levantine type. Drawn.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, neck, body -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thickening -- Rim end: indented -- Handle type: low vertical -- Handle section: strap -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: upward taper -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 30 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Handle section 1: 11 -- Handle section 2: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5Y7/2 2.5YR7/3 -- Colour - paint: 10YR5/2-4/1 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white, red -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium