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There are 25 objects for which Decoration contains → coarse
13.10.16 Interior: red with concentric black circles inside thick black bands halfway down body, and at base. Exterior: red, with one broad black band. Coarse brownish clay. Handles are also black.
14.9.18 Coarse ware with a white core. Inside is white, with red curved line around fracture. Outside is also white with red bands and dentate band (see drawing on card). Fragment is angled suggesting that part of it may have been the base of the vessel.
14.9.25 Pink, with decoration of red stripes on creamy ground on outside. Very coarse material and no decoration on the interior surface. No finished edges.
14.9.28 Fragment of coarse Neolithic pottery, pink with grey core, traces of decoration in red on outside and reserved inside.
14.9.32 Fragment with part of handle, probably belonging to a large vase. Interior is coarse and coloured red although undecorated. The exterior surface has a design of dull black with bands of white. There is a heavy white band round base of handle. Handle round in section. Surfaces are most uneven.
14.9.67 2 black lines at 45 degrees to each other. Black painted design with incised lines marking 7 thin rectangular sections with rounded ends all next to each other and getting shorter towards one side, every other one purple. (feathers? leather strips on armour?) 2 other small incised lines at right angles to each other on black, no clear design. All on coarse grey/buff background. Inside painted black.
29.5.5 Outside, thirteen palmettes separated by dot rosettes above and single large dots below; coarse incised line across heart of each. In handle zone zigzags. Inside and outside foot-ring and base within foot-ring black. Top of rim black. Inside black with reserved band, then black band, than reserved circle with image of Sphinx inside it.
30.4.1 Clay buff, coarse. Decoration: brick-red to brown on creamy buff. Zones of pattern: Step pattern between handles, chevron and dot under handle; bands; zig-zag; bands; wave pattern; bands; thick black band to foot. Underside of foot reserved except for three thin bands. Top side of handles has band pattern on then. Inside body, seven thin bands on a reserved backing. Leaf pattern on rim.
48.12.1 Bowl of rather coarse clay. Interior glossed black, although only traces of brown remain. Two rounded handles, one on each side, with traces of faint brownish-black gloss. Outside, narrow bands immediately below rim and at base of handles. Between the handles is pair of parallel wavy lines (only on front). Black gloss from below handles to foot. Foot is rounded and base is concave and reserved.
50.12.5 Part of foot of a closed vase. Coarse clay with tiny black and white inclusions. The interior is pink and fairly rough, the exterior is unglazed and grey. There is a small section of black near the top.
83.11.7 Front part of female head from figurine. Hair waved on top, ringlet down side on right side. Earrings. Clay dark orange, coarse, and bown in patterns.
83.5.2 Base of 4th c. BC coarse ware open vessel, painted black, fired reddish brown inside. Clay pink, with shell inclusions. Graffito on base (see drawing on card). Foot concave with central peak projecting.
E.23.19 Coarse red fabric, burnished. Stylized ships painted, one on either side, in dark red pigment, with details such as oars, sails, and 's' shapes representing the sea.
E.47.6.6 Tall red clay jar, tapering to base. Coarse pink clay. Band of black pigment around lip
E.47.6.7 Coarse pink fabric. Band of black pigment around lip.
E.47.6.8 Coarse pink fabric. One black oval surrounded by a red pigment.
E.62.24 Coarse red fabric. Flat base, widening to shoulders and pronounced, flat rim. Around the middle of the body there is a circular black mark inside of a diamond shaped mark.
REDMG:1953.25.101 Hollow figure showing head and shoulders of bearded male figure, head tilted to one side. Possibly a satyr(?). Coarse material with small stone inclusions.
REDMG:1953.25.105 Upper part of female(?) figure with bouffant hair-do with traces of pink. Traces of red on lips. Figure is wearing white tunic with vertical red stripes, and green belt with large buckle. Perhaps holding an eagle on right arm. Made of white plaster and is coarse. Back plain.
REDMG:1953.25.74 Coarse material. Very shallow plate. Inside are traces of orange and brown deposits. Incised band inside rim and maybe around base too. Surface is not flat but has small lumps, perhaps caused by inclusions. Base is flat. Reserved.
REDMG:1953.25.91 Figure on a horse, moulded both back and front. On back can be seen a circular shield. The front shows the horses mane and the figures face. Red coarse clay with flecks of white. Hole completely through nose of horse perhaps for suspension(?). Horse has two legs, each with a concave base.
REDMG:1953.25.98 Small male head with curly thick hair, a large beard, and a large moustache, as well as a furrowed brow. The shape of the head suggests that it was once attatched at the back to a wall or other verticle structure, although that back of the head does have a concave structure to it. Coarse, dark red fabric.
REDMG:1964.1652.1 Coarse clay with inclusions. Thin neck and foot. Base is flat. No pattern or incised design.
REDMG:1964.1711.1 Coarse clay with many inclusions making it rough. Simplistic design. Colours vary but are not painted and object is reserved all over. Sides are uneven. White deposits on outside toward base.
REDMG:1964.1712.1 Entirely reserved. Coarse material made worse by deposits. Thin sides to deep and wide body. Base appeared to have been flat but know has deposits. No handles exist.
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