COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 789, P138
Ware:
White Slip II
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Mended, almost complete medium-sized bowl. Deep hemispherical body, rounded base. Incurved rounded rim. Horizontal wishbone handle set well below rim, mostly missing. Oval mouth (170 by 180). Decorated in matt red-brown to chocolate brown paint. Sets of parallel angled lines on surface of handle. Thin bands around each handle/body join. On exterior, below rim, a horizontal crosshatched band with broad outer lines. Below, on either side of body, a second horizontal crosshatched band from one side of handle to frontal panel. In between, a horizontal row of dots. Below, alternating vertical crosshatched and narrower ladder bands to base. Centre of base plain. In narrow front panel central vertical ladder band between vertical rows of dots. Small black roughly circular discoloured areas on interior. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 10 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: wishbone -- Handle section: rectangle -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 175 -- Height to rim: 110 -- Height - maximum diameter: 80 -- Diameter - body: 185 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Handle section 1: 14 -- Handle section 2: 9 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/3 -- Colour interior: 10YR8/2 -- Colour - paint: 7.5YR4/4 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium
