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There are 14 objects for which Decoration contains → greyish
2008.7.117 Interior: Traces of a darker wash. Exterior: Traces of a greyish wash. 2 wide raised parallel vertical ridges at centre of fragment.
2008.7.143 Exterior: greyish wash, 3 narrow, non-parallel ridges towards top half of fragment.
2008.7.150 Interior: greyish wash. Exterior: greyish wash with 2 diagonal lines forming an 'x' shape etched at either end of fragment.
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.
2008.7.59 Exterior and Interior: greyish wash.
2008.9.24 Interior: greyish-black wash, top of rim overpainted in same greyish-black colour. Exterior: Greyish black wash, interspersed by 2 horizontal bands of unfinished terracotta, the lower band wider than the upper. The lower band has 7 smaller dots overpainted within it.
2008.9.26 Interior: greyish-black wash. Exterior: 3 thin narrowly-spaced lines run parallel to one of the edges of the fragment. The upper of these is overpainted in a greayish-black colour, the 2 lower are a redish-brown. Below these lines are three greyish-black dots interspersed by vertical thick greyish black and thinner redish-brown lines.
2008.9.28 Interior: greyish-black wash covers half of the interior, the other half is left unfinished. Exterior: A wide pinkish-red strip is overpainted across the centre of the exterior. Above this is the remains of a parallel greyish-black line with 4 greyish black vertical lines attached to it. Below are 2 unfinshed circles, bordered by a greyish-black outline.
22.3.24 Clay greyish. Inside, with reserved circle, woman running with tray in one hand, uncertain object in other. Rocky ground shown by black spots on reserved surface. Around the inside rim of the kylix are heart and flower shape patterns attached to long flowing lines.Added white, sometimes touched with yellow. On deep rim, ivy beneath. Outside A: two men facing each other holding different uncetain objects there are three circular objects around them, two with a dot in the middle and the other with a cross. Three palmette patterns surround each of the men, but as some of the kylix is missing these patterns are not all complete, the patterns also change slightly when under the handle. The lower quarter of presumably similar picture of the men can also be seen.
26.12.32 Pale clay; greyish glaze, uneven reserved patches between handles (at join with body), inside of handles also reserved, reserved band above footring (possibly unintentional). Footring black with narrow reserved resting surface. Base reserved with large black disk in centre.
26.12.34 Burnt; dull greyish black; where glaze has flaked off, dull grey beneath. Ring handle with triple grooves, groove round lip; flat wide lip. Sharp bend between upper and lower part of body. Large flat resting surface. Underneath reserved.
45.10.20 i) Part of a voluted palmette with petal-shaped divisions seems to be connected to part of a three-pointed floral motif by a thick, black, curving line. On the left there is another, identical three-pointed flower, only bigger and illustrated inverted and vertically and at the left end of the fragment another curving line. Below these, there is part of a perpetual meander pattern and the upper part of continuous, teardropped motives. Some form of greyish (light) brown plaster has been applied to the surface around the voluted palmette. ii) Small part of guilloche (thin fillets with tongue-shaped endings interwoven together) with dots among the lines. Below, there are traces of thin, black lines (but not visible because of burning). Underneath, radial-shaped motif. iii) Underneath two thin lines there is a meander pattern. iv) Part of the upper ending of a radial-shaped motif. v) larger part of a radial- shaped motif. There is part of a thin, horizontal line on the top of one of the divisions and more to the left there is a circle with a dot in the middle and two vertical lines (part of the guilloche). vi) Small part of the guilloche and radial-shaped motif below that.
57.3.1 Clay pale, paint greyish brown: large closed vessel, interior unpainted. Exterior broad black line, and part of a circular spiral in black. One small faded black line in middle of fragment, a section of a semi circle to the left of the broad black line.
61.6.1.13 Paint dark grey. Reserved band 0.5 cm broad; below it linear spinal pattern, reserved gainst the dark greyish ground.
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