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11.10.6 Cup mouth with deep flange with six bands in two groups of three. Side band is continued across top of handle but otherwise it is plain. Three warriors, heads left, feet right. Spears slope left and shields are red in centre but have a black rim with white dots. The six band pattern is in two groups of three again on the base.
13.10.11.6 Groups of three incised parallel lines, arranged patterns.
13.10.12 Decorated with three groups of horizontal lines around the body, rays on shoulder, a wavy line round neck. The handle is painted on either edge with a black stripe and a wavy one on its surface. all in black. Edge lip painted in black.
13.10.7 Fired black in patches. Incised decoration: groups of zig-zags and intersecting straight lines which stop at base without meeting.
2006.12.40 Brown concentric circles around pot, 3 narrow, 2 broad. Parallel lines meet these circles at right angles, with zig-zag lines between the groups of parallel lines
22.3.4 Glaze fired partly to red and partly to greyish-black. Inside is reserved. Two high, curved handles black on top and reserved below. Under handles are crosses between pairs of vertical lines. On each side are four palmettes standing on four larger, inverted palmettes all joined with a chian and half a palmette at each end. In some areas are groups of very short incised vertical grooves. Below pattern are three bands and then black (faded to red) to foot and including top and side of foot. Resting surface is reserved as is base.
22.3.40 Black glaze except for reserved base. Incised horizontal ivy branch (slightly sloping to the right) on neck, from which descend four streams over the shoulder. Painted leaves and three dot berry groups, once white but now faded.
22.9.7 Black, mostly fired to orange-red, on buff ground. Possible added colour (white?) in groups of stripes. Mouth: broad band between two narrow bands. On the exterior of the mouth, band; shoulder: tongues. Body: three bands at top; deep painted zone divided vertically by incised lines (two parallel) dissecting into segments; four bands below. Base reserved. The exterior of the ring foot painted.
23.4.1 Black inside, with 8 ivy leaves reserved on rim joined by a stem and with groups of white berries. At the base of the inside is a stamped pattern of 5 linked palmettes around a horse shoe pattern with ovules inside, and there are ovules around the outside between bands. Side A is a youth with discus and athlete holding aryballos and side B is an athlete and youth with a discus hanging on the wall. Below each handle is a group of three palmettes. Moulded ridge above foot, which is black all over. Base is reserved in centre with three black bands, two broad and one narrow.
26.2.18 In the top zone, oblique palmette, wild goat to right with head turned back (only tip of beard preserved), added red on black and haunch, reserved line on belly, in field dot rosette, crossed dumb-bell ornament, dotted double spiral; black zone with bands white-red-white superimposed; rays (tip of one preserved). Inside black with a reserved band a little below rim and two groups of bands, white-red-white, roughly on a level with the top and bottom of the broad black band outside.
27.10.1 Reddish-brown on pale buff ground. On shoulder, five groups of concentric arcs, three based on outer circumference, one sideways, one base towards neck. Eight black narrow band are nestled between two broad black bands. The pattern repeats itself on the body and base three times, with a variation after the first group where there are three reddish-brown narrow bands in the buff area. The base is buff, with an overlap of a broad black band.
27.3.3 Fine thin fabric of pinkish-buff ground. Inside is purple/black with traces of red bands. Rim flares out and on it is a black band with two thin red bands. Below this are vertical bars in two groups, some longer. One broad black band then three narrow red bands. Five pronged triangular lines radiating from base. Two bands on foot and three on base.
27.4.4 Paint is red-brown. Single handle with incised line down back creating two halves. Trefoil mouth with short bars around, leading to long straight neck. On neck are two parallel bands at the top, above four groups of three tongues with a red bar across top. Three bands separate neck design from shoulder design of three grazing deer facing right with zig-zag fill ornaments above shoulders and a small bird (?) on extreme left. On body is one zone of checks and then bands to base. Base is flat and reserved.
27.4.6 The bowl shows linear decoration in black (fired orange-red) and (purple) red on buff. Groups of four bars on rim and inside, a thin band just underneath the lip. Large red/orange disk in centre of bowl. Outside of bowl features a pattern of wave-like pattern beginning underneath the handles, with one thin band either side. Below this, more plain bands are evident, one thick, the rest thin until the base. Foot contains one thin band right at the top, and then a thick one on the inside.
29.2.1 Brownish-black on pale buff ground. On top of lip groups of chevrons. in handle zone, warts ringed with dots; beside one of the handles a pattern of dots resembling grape clusters. On body, bands.
30.11.2 Handles turn outwards and end in small knob where they join body. Inside from top to bottom, vertical lines in groups, circular pattern of brown with some red showing through. Sides concave and decorated with groups of straight or wavy lines in four rows between bands of two or three. Base is plain.
30.4.2 On top of mouth thin fields between two groups of circles; side, row of small dots between bands. Three horizontal lines on handles. Bearded goat to left, head erect, added red on neck and stomach. Field rosettes mainly cruciform with diagonal incisions crossing at centre. Below goat, three bands around base with a gap before four more circles meeting at centre of base. Partly white style, where a large area remains free of design.
33.4.2 Black, often fired to brick-red, and purple-red decoration on creamy-buff. On top of rim and handles groups of bars. Main zone, palmettes in panels (divided by vertical herring-bone bands). Stem has two bands at top, two at bottom. Inside bowl, three broad bands. Rim and base of foot reserved.
35.4.2 Black on mouth and neck. Lower part of neck has vertical black lines which are thicker at the bottom. Palmette design on body with chevron heart framed in tendrils and with dots in groups of three either side of central leaf. Right and left a cluster of leaves and beyond, on either side of handle, similar cluster reversed. Beneath handle, cluster of leaves. Black band at bottom of base and foot. Base reserved.
37.11.2 Top of mouth has one thick then one thin band. The handle has vertical zigzag (much worn) between bars. The shoulder has a daisy pattern above three bands. Bottom four circles round central spot. Over front of whole vase and covering part of bands is a large double palmette shape with projecting lines and groups of dots at one end and a circular pattern with dot at the other. Random dots over back area of body. Bands around base.
38.4.2 Reddish-brown on pale buff ground. The false neck is decorated predominantly in a black band, with a narrow and broad black circular band in the centre of the false neck. The underside appears to be reserved, with a single thick black line at the base on the false neck. The true neck has a faded broad back band around and overlapping the lp. There is a broad black band at the base of the neck, and also a black blob on the side facing the false neck. On the shoulder there are six groups of narrow black lines painted horizontally. There is one group of either side of the true neck, both have eight horizontal lines, the one on the left has two rings of black to either side of it. The groups of lines on the other side, if faced with the true neck at the top, have groups of 6, 7, 9. 8 horizontal lines, all with a small ring of black in between them. The shoulder is outlined with a broad ring of black. The body has four broad black lines, which have faded to a reddish brown. Adjacent are narrow red rings; four above the first band, two within the first band, two within the second band, two or three below the second band. The fourth band does not overlap the base, which is slightly concave in shape, and has the suggestion of a foot ring.
38.4.3 Black detail faded to brown on pale buff background. Interior of mouth has faded remains of a 0.6 cm thick black circular band. The rest of the interior is reserved. The lip has indications of one, possible two extremely narrow black bands around the circumference. The neck shows signs of either having a very thick black band or several narrow black bands painted closely together. On the shoulder there are two narrow bland bands, then an 1.5 cm area of cross hatching which is surrounded on both sides by a broad black band. The handles appear to have been painted in black on the top and side, and reserved underneath. The main body of the pyxis consists of two narrow brown bands separated by the reserve, then a black band, the pattern is repeated once to the base. The base itself has a black band which overlaps from the body, then two groups of concentric rings, three in the inner circle, and four in the outer circle.
38.4.5 Brick red detail on pale buff background. Three groups of three red lines roughly painted, one group of two red lines, all are verticle lines curving to the left at the bottom, between a horizontal red band on the jug shoulder, and a horizontal red band on the lower body of the jug.
45.6.12 Inside has black bands and a central black dot. Outside has a rim with dotted rosettes in handle zone. Black band above main design of 9 inverted swans with red bodies and black necks. Groups of dashes in the field. Black band below design with vertical rays to foot. Foot is black on top, reserved on resting surface, black badn and reserved centre, which is convex.
49.8.5 Black tongues on mouth and black rim. Horizontal parallel black bars on handle. Black tongues on moulded ring level with bottom of handle. Upper part of body ridged, painted with black and purple bands, then black, purple bands with groups of vertical lines. Body has moulded rings. Around base tongues and black foot. Reserved, concave base.
50.3.3 Above foot, and again half-way up to handles, groups of five fine incised lines.
50.4.8 Black gloss on mouth, neck, shoulder, and handle (dipped). On shoulder, three rows of white spots: seven (tear-shaped) above, five (larger tear-shaped) in the middle, and below, five groups of three dots in a triangular pattern. The body is decorated with a diagonal net pattern of thin black lines with thin white spots inside the lozenges. Thick irregular black band at bottom of body, reserved stem, black foot, including resting surface, but otherwise reserved underside, with a spiral pattern etched at the centre. White paint dots added and traces of red wash over body.
50.5.5 The interior is black, as is the exterior, except for a band of waves under the rim, the figural decoration in the body zone, and wide reserved bands around the handle zone. Both sides portray a female head facing left. Side A: Laurel wreath encircling head; groups of three white dots in the field and on the back of the head; beaded necklace. Single thick leaves rise from the base on either side of the head. Side B: Plain band encircling head; groups of three white dots in the field and on the back of the head; two beaded necklaces. Single thick leaves (of different sizes) rise from the base on either side of the head. Disk in lower left field. White for hair ornaments and on the upper necklace on side B. Beneath each handle is a palmette beneath circles surrounding dots.
50.5.6 Vertical strap handle from rim to bottom ridge, extending over the rim, has parallel horizontal lines. Towards the top,a double bar cross. Inside is reserved except for the rim decorated with four groups of 8/10 vertical black lines, framed by a thin line above and two below, extnding to the upper part fo the body.The body has a zone of hanging spirals to the left,framed by two black lines. It is followed by a meander and four parallel black bands below, a zone of herring-bone. Either side of handle are three vertical lines. Herring-bone pattern sits on ridge which has two bands below. Base is flat and reserved.
54.2.3 Upper part of the outside is buff whereas the lower part and the entire inside are both pink. On the outside buff section, are coarsely incised groups of lines in groups of three. Some are vertical and others are inclined. Pink foot and resting surface and base. Base has central convex section.
58.2.4 The lip of the jug is decorated with black lines compartmentalising the area; within every other compartment there is a design of lines of black dots. This design is carried on part way into the interior of the vase and onto the spur. The underneath of the rim is delineated with a black line. The neck is decorated with three compartments of decoration of unequal size. The compartments are divided by two black lines which enclose crosses surrounded by diamonds. Within two of the compartments there is decoration consisting of lines of vertical dots hemmed in by horizontal lines on either side; underneath are crosses with dots in each section and above is a mixture of crosshatching, lines and dots. The third section is undecorated apart from six groups of three diagonal lines, which form a vertical stripe of decoration under the handle. The body has decoration of long and short double lines containing cross-hatching reaching for the base (within the gaps there is a cross with dots in each section), below two such lines enclosing a string of continuous horizontal diamonds. The base is decorated on both faces with lines and circles. The handle is also decorated with black lines.
E.23.59 String of beads made up of three lines of green cylinders and buff disks, these meet up with a short line of brown beads and then split up into three seperate strings again. There are 14 groups of three lines.
E.62.16 A cubic dice, white in colour with numerical symbols etched on and then painted in black. On all bar one side the symbols are made up of one dot surrounded by two concentric circles, the number of these represents the value of that side. On two sides there are five, on two there are four and six on the fifth. The final side has twelve dots although on this side one symbol consists of one dot and one circle rather than two, also the dots are depicted in groups of twos.
E.62.60 Undulating lines around the mouth and in three concentric semi-circular shapes, then three groups of four solid triangles; all in a purple/brown paint.
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