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There are 24 objects for which Decoration contains → zigzag
114.9.45 Pale buff ground. In handle zone, continuous zigzag, black. Below, two broad bands, the upper red. Bottom reserved, except black foot-ring; slightly raised central disk. Inside streaky black. Black on handles.
13.10.10 White-painted, with black linear patterns. At front of neck, female figurine, to hip level. Beak-face, prominent breasts, arms curled round them, hand on mouth. Black linear decor, painted circles resembling eyes, black dots or rings on breasts resembling nipples, zigzag decoration within border at base of figurine.
13.10.11.16 Parallel zigzag lines incised on both the bottom and top sides of the bead as well as an incision of one line around the girth of the bead and around each end of the piercing.
14.9.16 Core of this fragment is white with the interior surface painted red. The exterior surface is white with a bold red zigzag. No finished edges.
14.9.17 Red core with both surfaces covered in white. The fragment is curved in two directions suggesting it is part of the neck of a vessel. Convex curve white and the concave curve is white with a red zigzag. No finished edges.
14.9.8 Core red. Red surface with linear decor in dull black on both sides. The underside appears to have a zigzag pattern above a more dense and busy pattern of lines and zigzags. No finished edges.
2005.3.36 White slip, zigzag and line in added red, possible bands on interior
26.2.35 No finished edges. The underside has broad streaky black bands on pale buff slip with slightly raised moulding that must have encircled top of stem with a thin and feint band around it. Inside the dish, on pale buff slip, from top to bottom is the lower part of animal zone showing two hooved feet and grass. Below is a red zigzag between two white-red-white on black bands. Below and in centre of dish (now missing) is a rosette made of leaves with dots and spokes bewteen.
26.8.1 Interior black and exterior decorated with black ornament. Black band on handle extending down each side, with horizontal bars between. On the body are panels or vertical strips of check pattern, herring-bone, cross-hatched lozenges and (bordered above by a row of dots), chevrons flanked by horizontal zigzags and at each end a vertical zigzag and this pattern is repeated on the other side. The lower part of body is black to base, which is reserved and flat.
27.3.5 Decoration faded brick-red. On lip five concentric circles, on handle is a vertical zigzag between two thin lines. On shoulder are two dogs running to the right. On body are a group of four lines, between two bands, then six lines, below which are four bands. The base is reserved and concave with a small central protrusion.
27.4.15 Pale clay, paint fired red. Trefoil lip. On neck, a central panel with bird (?), flanked on either side by two vertical lines, panel of zigzag (?) or oblique lines, three more vertical lines. Top and bottom of body broad band; thin bands filling space
33.4.1 Four handles, three with decoration, one without. Decoration black (mostly fired red) and red (purple) on creamy-buff. Zones of pattern: vertical bars (which go up onto the rim and three handles); zigzag; dotted lozenges; triangles separated by hanging loops or dot rosettes. Red used for thin bands dividing each zone. Stem and foot have five redish/black bands round them. Rim of foot edged with small vertical lines. Foot and stem decorated with two more bands. Inside kylix, two black bands round outside, then three smaller in the middle.
34.8.9 Quatrefoil with side hatching and central zigzag. Below, three petals below zigzag. Six-pointed star on back (very faint). On top of mouth four bands, the second from edge is broader. Dark brown patterning and yellow-buff clay.
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.
47.10.1 On the mouth, small daisy petals between bands; on side, row of dots between bands. Zigzag on handle. Monkey-faced horseman riding left. Behind him a star with incised lines crossing at centre. In front large ring enclosing a cross with incised lines crossing at centre. Circular painting on base with four radiating lines from centre.
49.8.11 On mouth three concentric black bands; dots on edge. Zigzag pattern on handle. On the shoulder, black tongues. The figure decorated body zone is framed by three thin horizontal parallel black bands. On the body two confronted lions, between which an incized rosette. Dots and irregularly drawn rosettes on the background. Two concentric circles on the underside of the base.
50.10.1 The interior, from the lip down, is reserved. There is a thick band on the lip and vertical bars on the exterior of the rim, then five bands, evenly spaced, between the rim and where the handles start. Neck (A,B): Panel between two triglyphs, each consisting of three vertical lines, a band of diagonal lines, and another three vertical lines. Panel filled with a long-legged bird facing left (body outlined and filled with vertical lines), filling splotches, and a horizontal triangle, cross-hatched, to the right. Shoulder (A,B): Seven vertical lines, panel, seven vertical lines. The panels are filled with (A) dog (silhouette) runing to right, with filling ornament, (B) same, but the dog chasing a hare. Horizontal bands cover the exterior of both handles, and the handle zones are outlined with a very thick band. Body: three horizontal bands; close zigzag; seven more bands; a large black band covering the lower part of the body and the foot. Resting surface and underside reserved.
57.3.6 Interior: broad brown band just below rim. Exterior: brown zigzag pattern enclosed within two brown lines. Thin painted band around rim.
REDMG:1926.99.54 Mouth black interior and exterior; reserved neck; black on exterior of handle; band of black vertical bars above white band decorated black rays on shoulder, extending to carination. Body, top: white band decorated with two rows of black dots joined by a thin black zigzag (at front, only), above two black lines; figural scene (front only); white band; black band between two black lines; black to foot and on top of foot; otherwise reserved. Figural scene is of a chariot behind which stand three draped female figures (two women, standing profile to right, towards a third figure, standing profile to left. A fourth female figure sits profile to left, in front of the chariot. All four figures are draped, wreathed (with red bands), and have white faces.
REDMG:1935.87.10 Outside: vertical worm pattern (curved zigzag) on handle zone; below, wide red band between two narrow red bands, two black bands, black around foot. Resting surface reserved, red band round inside of foot ring. Inside black with hints of a red band.
REDMG:1935.87.22 Tongues emerging from mouth between two bands. Dots around the rim and tongues again on shoulder. Zigzag with two dots on handles. Main design is five warrior figures facing left, carrying large shields. Each shield is bisected with incised vertical parallel lines and coloured one half red and the other half yellow. The outer ring of the shield is brown, and the helmets which the warriors appear to be wearing are yellow. The base has two bands around tongues with two bands the other side.
REDMG:1958.33.1 Rim painted black. three horizontal lines around the upper body, one zigzag line around centre of the neck and single wide band around the base of the neck. Two narrow black horizontal bands around the upper body. Four sets of seven narrow black conentric circles and one wide red circle around the body. Horizontal and vertical bars on the outer handle.
TEMP.2002.9.27 Almost flat but with no finished edges. Underside reserved and topside has a red zigzag pattern with transverse bars between lines. There are three rows of zigzag on this fragment.
TEMP.2002.9.28 Chunky fragment which is flat. The underside is reserved and the topside has three bands at the top and eight rows of irregular zigzag below. No finished edges.
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