Cemetery:
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Kafkalla
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Tomb and Item:
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Tomb 789, P132
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Ware:
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White Painted IV
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Shape:
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ring vase
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Notes:
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Body and base fragment from a small ring vase. Horizontal ring-shaped body, with three (or possibly four) feet. Probably a transverse handle, from one side of the ring to the other. Spout, handle, areas of body and feet missing. Decorated in slightly lustrous black/brown paint. Surface very worn, with paint surviving only in patches. Two parallel horizontal lines at mid-body. Above and below, a horizontal row of crosshatched lozenges. Drawn.
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Description:
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General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: body, base -- Joins: 8 -- Base type: tripod -- Diameter - body: 70 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - paint: 10YR3/1 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5Y7/2 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
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