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There are 10 objects for which Decoration contains → etched
2008.7.136 Exterior: greyish-black wash visible towards bottom of the fragment. Three horizontal, narrowly-spaced parallel lines etched towards upper edge.
2008.7.137 Interior: black wash. Exterior: black wash with very thin, narrowly-spaced horizontal lines etched, revealing unfinished terracotta beneath.
2008.7.139 Interior: small spots of a darker colour are over painted. Exterior: 6 diagonal lines, forming a diamond pattern are etched. A narrow horizontal groove forming a lip is etched towards top of fragment.
2008.7.140 Exterior: One horzontal line with 4 short vertical lines at 90 degrees to it are etched on top edge of thwe rim.
2008.7.150 Interior: greyish wash. Exterior: greyish wash with 2 diagonal lines forming an 'x' shape etched at either end of fragment.
2008.7.152 Exterior: two horizontal parallel lines etched towards top of fragment. Below this, 3 vertical, non-parallel ridges, with narrower ridges coming off at shallow angles towards the bottom of them.
2008.9.1 Interior: brownish wash with a wide band of brownish-grey along 3 of the fragment's edges. Exterior: Black wash with white lines etched depicting an image. 2 leg-like shapes at right-angle to curved edge, joining onto curved lines possibly outling a body.
2008.9.4 Exterior: 2 front legs of an animal, joining onto a body is overpainted in greysh-black. 5 short vertical lines are etched across the body and a few other etched lines define the back legs and chest of the animal. 2 back legs and a tail are partially present. A thick horizontal band and below a thinner band run parallel to the bottom-edge of the fragment. The animal appears to be standing on the thinner band, and there are 2 circle between the front and back legs, and two circles to the right of it.
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.
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.
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