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There are 11 objects for which Shape_description contains → slopes
14.9.58 Conical with narrower neck at one end and widening to a lip at the other like a miniature vase. End with lip slopes inwards to a raised central circle.
2007.9.7 Four-sided, almost rectangular except for one side which slopes down more genlty, resulting in a noticeably acute point at one corner.
2008.7.133 Hammer-head shaped fragment, with one semi-circular face. Slopes up to a rim.
45.6.31 Neck amphora with wide mouth; long, wide neck; two vertical handles from top of rim to middle of body; donut shaped body slopes into thick stem; small, flat foot; flat resting surface and slightly raised underside.
48.12.7 Flaring neck; upper part of body slopes sharply out to junction with bottom of single curved vertical circular handle. Widest part of body is towards base making a 'squat' shape. Flat base.
49.1.1 Inturned rim with straight sides; ribbon handle; shoulder slopes down to vertical wall, then sharply recedes to vertical footring and sloping underside of the base.
51.7.2 Lid: slightly convex top with circular groove (1.9 cm diam.) at the centre, overhanging a cylindrical body, with straight sides, terminating in a rounded rim at bottom. Pyxis: high cylindrical body with straight sides and simple rounded rim sits atop a flanged element, with rounded edges, that slopes sharply to a foot ring with tapered interior edge and rounded resting surface.
60.1.4A-B Pyxis: inverted rim slightly hanging over bulbous body; small, ring torus foot above a slight groove; convex underside Lid: Gently slopes up to stem and donut shaped knob.
L.2016.3.14 Female dancer, slightly turned to her left in a likewise slight step position. Her right arm slopes down, her left arm is raised and she is looking to her left hand, which is bent backwards. A hole in mentioned hand gives rise to the suspicion that she is holding an (missing) object. There is another hole at her left heel.
REDMG:1935.87.2 Two tall handles, which each extend from the neck to the top of the shoulderr; resting surface slopes slightly; base hollow.
REDMG:1935.87.30 Mouth has a rim that slopes downwards. Concave sides with two small lug handles, each placed ca. 1.5 cm below rim ; carination and further concave element near flat base.
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