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There are 30 objects for which Decoration contains → brownish
11.10.14 Black all over, but glaze is lacking luster and brownish.
13.10.16 Interior: red with concentric black circles inside thick black bands halfway down body, and at base. Exterior: red, with one broad black band. Coarse brownish clay. Handles are also black.
14.9.56 Brownish black paint on buff clay. Design of connected spirals, with chevrons in the spaces between. Underside is reserved.
2008.7.145 Interior: cream wash with 4 parallel horizontal lines overpainted in greyish-black creating 2 bands of pattern, one twice the width of the other. The narrower band contains 5 semi-circles, and the narrower a more irregular pattern of intersecting curved and straight lines. Exterior: Cream wash with narrow, evenly-spaced parallel horizontal lines overpainted in greyish-black. Patches of brownish glaze remain.
2008.7.153 Interior: greyish-black wash. Exterior: greyish black wash which fades gradually into a brownish colour, and then a reddish colour across fragment.
2008.9.1 Interior: brownish wash with a wide band of brownish-grey along 3 of the fragment's edges. Exterior: Black wash with white lines etched depicting an image. 2 leg-like shapes at right-angle to curved edge, joining onto curved lines possibly outling a body.
2022.7.8.a the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.b the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.c the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.d the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.e the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.f the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.g the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.h the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.i the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.l the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
2022.7.8.m the inside of fragments is painted with black and opaque paint; the external surface of the fragment is decorated with black and shiny paint; the first big ring of the base is painted with a brownish paint
26.2.28 Brownish buff ground. The underside has three evenly sized and spaced bands. The parts between are reserved. The topside has red band around rim, with bands of white-red-white on black below with a meander pattern in red followed by another set of red and white bands on black. There are the tips of tongues at the fracture coloured black and red.
26.2.37 Underside has two red (for black) bands on creamy slipped ground, framed by foot-ring in brownish black. Upper side, on same ground, slight remains of figured zone with incisions, broad band with white-red-white on black, key pattern, broad band with slight raised moulding on inner circumference.
37.11.5 Black gloss covers the entire vessel, except for the underside of the foot. The gloss is not lustrous and on the exterior towards the foot is fired brownish. Inside the bottom of bowl, a brownish band caused by foot of another vase fired within it in the kiln. Inside is stamped design of four palmettes outside two concentric circles with an egg and dot pattern attached to the second one. Red paint is applied on the underside of the foot. It is decorated with a wide black band and a black dot at the centre. Between them, two thin concentric circles of almost invisible thinned glaze.
39.9.5 Double-incision orange-quaterings on mouth and body. Small circular depression on bottom. On body, every fourth/fifth quartering superimposed red. Traces of white/yellow in some sections(now brownish).
45.6.18 Mouth, handle and the upper part of the neck have been dipped in a brownish, lustreless, uneven glaze. Neck has five vertical, black tongues. The body is patterned in coarse-meshed net which occasionally overlaps onto foot, which is small but uneven. Base flat and reserved.
47.2.9 Black gloss covers the entire body, except for resting surface, and within ridge on underside. Underside is covered with red paint and further decorated on reserved area with dot at the centre, central circle, and two thinner concentric circles. Much of exterior misfired brownish.
47.6.2A-B Lid: Straight sides and a moulded rim at the top and bottom, both red. The plastic ring at the top of the lid black. The top is decorated with a depiction of a male figure, perhaps Dionysus (Ure) or Pan (Boardman) with horns springing from his head. He wears an animal skin (brownish dots) over his shoulders, with a hoof dangling. He seems to be stepping or sitting on another animal skin. In raised left hand he holds an indeterminate instrument (Ure: handleless fork; Boardman: syrinx) and he rests his right hand, brought before his body, on an oar-shaped object (trumpet; Ure: winnowing fan; Boardman: 'lagobolon'). To his left is the forepart of a pig (or dog?), and to his right, a basket with three corn stalks. There is also a red, thin line at the joining point of the plastic ring and the lid. The decoration of the side surface of the lid is a motif of vertical, hanging, wavy tongues, between reddish brown bands. There is also one inverted heart-shaped motif at some point between the tongues. Body: There is a red line at the rim and another one at half the way up the body, both on the inside and the outside. On the interior there are two, concentric, reddish-brown circles. Exterior: There is also a red line at the bottom of the body, while the disk-shaped ring is reddish-brown. Wide rim at base. Underside is reserved and central section flat.
49.1.1 Interior reserved except for red central interior surrounded by thin red and black bands. The vertical part of the interior of the rim has black and brownish bands. Decoration of thin red and black bands, with dots at edge of mouth and outlined tongues round shoulder. Outside of handle black. The underside of the foot decorated with three concentric black bands and dot at the centre. The ring on the interior and exterior covered with brownish paint. The resting surface has two thin concentric brownish bands. Sloping part of the body two thin brown bands. Above the ridge, brown band and that part covered with brown paint.
50.12.35 paint brownish black; interior reserved with one black band 0.8 cm wide, exterior black band 1.5 cm wide painted over a groove, below it, painted in black.
50.4.5 Interior of the neck until almost the beginning of the shoulder black. The rest of the interior reserved. On the exterior, neck and handle black. The lower part of the neck is decorated with a row of eggs. The lower part of the handle, at the height of the shoulder bears part of the decoration of a palmette the rest of which covers the body and is hown upside down. The body is decorated in black figure with a palmette-lotus frieze below with double-chevron palmette heart. The lower part of the body remains black fired brownish.
54.2.1 Interior red for black. On outer surface are horizontal parallel bands of brownish black, increasing in width from neck downwards. Rim is slighlty outturned.
58.2.1 Side of rim painted brownish black, two bands on neck. Three bands of thin, brownish paint on upper half of body. Bottom reserved.
73.9.8 The rim, leading to a band on the ouside is black, as is the entire inside of the fragment. Below the band on the outside is a horizontal 'S' shape pattern with small dots above and below it. To the left of this is a big black blob, which is slightly raised to suggest a handle ? Below the 'S' shape are four parallel lines, below which is a thin brownish band, a gap, and then what looks like the edge of a black circle. The second fragment has no rim and also shows a black blob which looks like it should be the base of a second handle. The inside of the fragment is againentirely black. On the outside of this fragment, there is no 'S' shape pattern or parallel lines, but there is a brownish band, below which is the edge of what seems to be a black circle, the same as fragment 'a'.
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