COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P134
Ware:
White Slip II
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Rim, handle and body fragment from a large bowl. Hemispherical body with quite sharply incurved rounded rim. Horizontal wishbone handle below rim. Decorated in matt brown paint. On surface of handle, four groups of parallel angled lines and a small circle at the apex. Solid paint on sides of handle and around each handle/body join. On exterior, horizontal crosshatched band below rim. On body alternating vertical crosshatched bands, narrower vertical ladder bands and vertical rows of small dots. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: large open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thickening -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: wishbone -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 200-300 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 3.5 -- Handle section 1: 11 -- Handle section 2: 14 -- Exterior slip: worn -- Interior slip: worn -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5Y7/1 -- Colour - paint: 5YR3/3 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR4/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: very hard -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
