COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P137
Ware:
Transitional White Slip I�II
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Mended, almost complete bowl. Deep hemispherical body, rounded base. Incurved rounded rim. Horizontal handle set well below rim, squarish in section, mostly missing. Relatively coarse brick red fabric. Exterior dark grey and badly worn, with poorly adhering slip missing over large area, and encrusted, obscuring much of decoration. On exterior, below rim, horizontal ladder band (with slightly angled vertical lines) below horizontal line. On body, as preserved, vertical ladder band to lower body. Another vertical ladder band below surviving arm of handle. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, body, handle, base -- Joins: 3 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: square -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 145 -- Height to rim: 75 -- Height - maximum diameter: 70 -- Diameter - body: 149 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 5 -- Handle section 1: 10 -- Handle section 2: 9 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: ? -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 7.5YR7/2 -- Colour interior: 7.5YR7/2 -- Colour - paint: ? -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR5/4 -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: medium -- Inclusions - colour: black -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted
