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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P294

Red Polished III

juglet

Joining and non-joining rim, neck, handle, body and base fragments from a small juglet. Squat globular, almost biconical body, rounded base. Tall narrow neck, tapering to round horizontal mouth with everted flattened mouth rim. High vertical handle, rising slightly from the rim, inserted through wall at lower end. On front of body conical, slightly downward-pointing lug. Thin, relatively carelessly incised decoration. On surface of handle four groups of four parallel horizontal lines, another group at handle base. On mouth rim, four equidistant groups of double-framed sketchily incised rows of plain lozenges. Four parallel horizontal lines on upper and lower neck, five parallel horizontal lines at mid-neck and neck-base. Five parallel horizontal lines around base of lug. At mid-body a six-line horizontal zig-zag with three sets of a sketchy drawn multiple plain and hatched lozenge motif above and three below on each side of vessel. On lower body horizontal row of sketchily incised plain lozenges between triple parallel horizontal lines. Drawn. Sampled by Maria Dikomitou, 2006.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck, handle+body+base -- Joins: 10 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Base type: round -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: upward taper -- Lug type: unpierced -- Lug number: 1 -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 40 -- Height - full: 125 -- Height to rim: 120 -- Height - body: 70 -- Height - maximum diameter: 22 -- Diameter - body: 95 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 9 -- Handle section 2: 11 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium