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There are 6 objects for which Decoration contains → degrees
14.9.67 2 black lines at 45 degrees to each other. Black painted design with incised lines marking 7 thin rectangular sections with rounded ends all next to each other and getting shorter towards one side, every other one purple. (feathers? leather strips on armour?) 2 other small incised lines at right angles to each other on black, no clear design. All on coarse grey/buff background. Inside painted black.
2007.10.2.346 At first sight, what appears to be a dual profile of a bearded man and an elephant with their heads attached but facing in opposite directions. At the tip of the elephant's trunk there is a scorpion. When the cast is turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise, there appears to be a second male profile, facing to the right and wearing a hat.
2008.7.140 Exterior: One horzontal line with 4 short vertical lines at 90 degrees to it are etched on top edge of thwe rim.
2008.7.158 Interior: 3 yellowish-brown horizontal parallel stripes towards upper edgde. Exterior: small handle towards righthand corner at 90 degrees to fragment. Underneath this, three parallel horizontal stripes overpainted in brown.
2008.9.9 Interior: reddish-brown wash. Exterior: reddish-brown wash. One half of fragment forms a horizontal raised lip with 2 vertical narrow ridges within this at 90 degrees.
53.8.4 Molded, downturned rim with a flange (for lid); incurved horizontal round handles; deep body with nearly vertical sides that are slightly concave above the handles and convex below, curving sharply at the bottom into a broad, short stem, on top of a molded disc foot, recessed underneath in two degrees. Black gloss with red figure decoration. Side A: a female head profile to left, with small dotted circles in the upper field on either side; side B: palmette. Interior: a reserved band within the rim. Exterior: a band of vertical bars under the rim (with applied red wash); a reserved band around each handle attachment (also with red wash); a stemless ivy beneath each handle; narrow reserved band beneath figural scene; reserved band on the upper part of the foot; underside of foot is reserved and stained with red wash.
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