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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P339

Middle Cypriot cooking pot

cooking pot

Rim, neck, handle and upper body fragment from a medium-sized cooking pot. Wide cylindrical neck, round horizontal mouth with slightly flaring flattened rim. Vertical handle, round in section, from the rim, not inserted through wall at lower end. Neck/body join not sharply delineated. On surface of handle four short roughly gouged incisions, arranged vertically. Thin matt slip on interior (2.5YR6/6). No carbon discolouration. Drawn.

General shape: small closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: flattened -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle section: round -- Handle location: from rim -- Neck type: cylindrical -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 100 -- Wall below rim: 6 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Handle section 1: 16 -- Handle section 2: 16 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR5/4 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR4/6 -- Colour - core: dark -- Texture: coarse -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: poor