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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P76

White Painted IV

jug

Upper body and handle fragment from a jug. Rounded body, narrow neck. Small unpierced lug at neck base opposite handle. Large vertical handle, square/rectangular in section, inserted through wall with long tenon. Decoration in matt black/brown to orange-brown paint. Four-line vertical zig-zag on surface of handle. Solid paint on sides of handle. Solid paint on lug. On body, alternating horizontal rows of crosshatched lozenges and two-row solid chequerboards, the latter framed above and below by a horizontal line. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: body, handle -- Joins: 7 -- Handle type: vertical -- Handle section: rectangle -- Handle location: ? -- Lug type: unpierced -- Lug number: 1 -- Diameter - body: 132 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Handle section 1: 14 -- Handle section 2: 13 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR 8/3 -- Colour - paint: 10 YR4/1, 2.5YR5/4 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: high