COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P103
Ware:
White Painted IV
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rm, handle, body and base fragment from a small shallow bowl. Hemispherical body, incurved rounded rim, rounded base. Uptilted horizontal loop handle at rim. Decorated in matt orange-brown paint, fired darker on one side. Solid paint on rim. Three sets of five parallel lines on surface of handle. Parallel lines on edges and underside of handle. On interior, horizontal wavy line just below rim; body divided by two sets of two parallel lines from rim to base, as preserved. On exterior, below rim three-line horizontal zig-zag above horizontal line; crossed lines on upper body between handle joins; on lower body, vertical wavy line framed by double straight lines from below handle to front of vessel and four parallel vertical lines from side of vessel, probably meeting but not crossing on base. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 5 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 97 -- Height - full: 75 -- Height to rim: 45 -- Height - maximum diameter: 35 -- Diameter - body: 102 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 9 -- Handle section 2: 8 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 7.5YR7/6 -- Colour interior: 10YR7/3 -- Colour - paint: 7.5YR3/1 2.5YR4/4 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted
