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There are 14 objects for which Decoration contains → widest
13.10.5 Perforations at the lower end, of which three out of four remain, two on each side, the upper two level to each other, both just below the widest part of the spear. This is presumably where the dagger was attached to a shaft. The width of handle tapers on each end. While the centre of the fragment is thicker, raised on one face, the thickness diminishes towards the sides, which are rounded at the thicker (upper?) end.
26.12.6 Pale greenish clay once decorated with black paint, now brown. Two handles left reserved. Mouth black and on shoulder is a daisy-petal pattern. Just above the widest part of the body is a single row of dots and the rest is banded.
45.6.32 Fabric heavy and glaze is silvered. Two curved handles on opposite sides beginning at widest part of body and ending at top of neck. On either side of neck is a garland and hanging branch of white leaves on incised tendrils. Moulded rim around foot. Base reserved.
E.23.35 Small red jar with a large lip and thus a small mouth. The shoulder is the widest part of the body and descends to the flat base with a constant gradient. There is no discernable decoration.
REDMG:1935.87.20 Two red bands around widest part of body and red band on base.
REDMG:1951.135.1-2 Pyxis: Black band on lip and at top of handles, black rays (between handles) on shoulder; broad black band between lines, carelessly applied, at widest part; narrower black band below. Lid: Black on vertical part of knob and concentric band on lid, around knob.
REDMG:1953.25.20 Black glazed (but fired red in places) except for reserved underside including resting surface. Shoulder: six narrow red bands between two pairs of narrow white bands. On widest part of body, two red bands between white lines, with an intervening white line. Broad red band on exterior of foot.
REDMG:1953.25.59 Black glaze fired red in places; ghost of a palmette from the bottom of which emerge two volutes, in added white on shoulder at front; red band between two white lines on shoulder, just below handle attachment; red band on widest part of body; underside reserved except some black glaze overlapping from the sides.
REDMG:1964.1654.1 Globular body with thin neck and stem. Appears to have three moulded bands beneath widest part of body.
REDMG:1964.1656.1 Mouth has a flat rim and a thin neck. Body is widest around shoulder height. Foot flares out from stem to a flat base. Traces of black on body, suggesting it may once have been glazed (?) Some traces of red on body which may be the result of firing or remains of painted design.
REDMG:1964.1657.1 Foot reserved. Going up the stem the object becomes first narrower but then starts to widen out again reaching the widest area around the shoulders of the object. The body then becomes narrow again until reaches the rim of the mouth. A black gloss has been applied to the upper three quarters of the body including the rim and mouth. Dipped, lower part of body reserved. Bottom sloping obliquely, so that it can not stand.
REDMG:1964.1664.1 Wide-mouthed cup which narrows in centre and widens again before tapering to foot. Foot flares out and base is flat. Originally had two handles on opposite sides, starting on widest part of body and stretching to rim. Black inside and out.
REDMG:1964.1697.1 At widest part of body is a moulded band of vertical ridges.
REDMG:1964.1702.1 Reserved. Smooth material. Mouth has curved lip. Long neck with remains of the handle at the top and the rest on the shoulder. Body is widest at shoulder and narrows towards base which is raised and convesx in centre.
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