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There are 54 objects for which Decoration contains → light
13.10.19 Interior reddish brown colour, exterior a light beige to salmon coloured. No indiction of a pattern.
2006.5.19 Light red with pale yellow. With one large ridge and a few smaller ridges below the large one
2007.2.131 One side decorated is with a striped light brown glaze.
2007.2.141 Both side of the fragment are decorated in a light brown glaze. No distinctive pattern.
2007.2.93 One side is decorated with a series of parallel lines. In the centre of the fragment is a thick black line with a thinner one present above it. Underneath this lines of a light brown colour that increase in darkness.
2007.4.130 On one side, light red on the botom half and dark red on the other half. On the other side, a pale red background with evidence of a darker red pattern
2007.4.157 Painted light red on one side, with a dark red stripe near the lip. On the other side again a dark red stripe near the lip, and some sort of pattern involving red lines on lighter, orangey lines, but difficult to see owing to damage
2008.7.18 Light brown exterior glaze with darker reddish-brown decoration. Seven parallel lines perpendicular to three other lines, all of the reddish-brown color. Also the edge of a rounded design, also reddish-brown. The interior is glazed reddish-brown, but a redder hue than the color from the exterior decoration.
2008.7.200 Exterior: light beige wash over entire fragment, two thin brown/black parrallel overpainted lines at one end of the fragment
2008.7.37 Exterior has a light reddish-brown slip overpainted by six thin horizontal parallel red lines.
2008.7.6 Light yellow slip as relief patterns surrounded by darker orange slip for highlights. Lines with possible archs and possible figures.
2008.7.77 Exterior: Thin, narrowly-spaced, horizontal parallel lines overpainted in light brown.
2008.7.88 Interior: greyish-black wash. Exterior: Traces of cream wash with thin vertical light grey stripes overpainted above and below lip.
22.3.38 On the outside are several patterns, likely painted on as part of a larger decoration upon the original artefact as a complete object. The inside has a single large, slightly curved light orange line; again, potentially part of a larger pattern on the interior of the artefact.
22.9.19 Decorated with a series of light brown/orange stripes. All stripes vary in thickness.
23.11.3 Light glaze, red design
25.6.1 Three bands on saucer shaped mouth. Flanged sides, one band. Daisy pattern on shoulder. Cinquefoil with leaves touching central wheel and extends onto base of pot. Rough light brown cross on body below handle.
34.10.24 Standing female (Leda), left leg slightly bent. Naked with cloak over left leg and held up behind by left hand; swan, with neck stretched upwards, held against right hip. Clay light brown. White slip, blue on cloak. Large rectangular opening in back. On the back of the base is a piece of paper with the number 140 written on it.
34.8.13 Standing nude male, arms at sides. Legs apart, right knee slightly bent. Clay light brown. Plentiful red colouring. Solid; rectangular base.
45.10.20 i) Part of a voluted palmette with petal-shaped divisions seems to be connected to part of a three-pointed floral motif by a thick, black, curving line. On the left there is another, identical three-pointed flower, only bigger and illustrated inverted and vertically and at the left end of the fragment another curving line. Below these, there is part of a perpetual meander pattern and the upper part of continuous, teardropped motives. Some form of greyish (light) brown plaster has been applied to the surface around the voluted palmette. ii) Small part of guilloche (thin fillets with tongue-shaped endings interwoven together) with dots among the lines. Below, there are traces of thin, black lines (but not visible because of burning). Underneath, radial-shaped motif. iii) Underneath two thin lines there is a meander pattern. iv) Part of the upper ending of a radial-shaped motif. v) larger part of a radial- shaped motif. There is part of a thin, horizontal line on the top of one of the divisions and more to the left there is a circle with a dot in the middle and two vertical lines (part of the guilloche). vi) Small part of the guilloche and radial-shaped motif below that.
45.6.8 In handle zone, two rows of black blobs (? leaves) in light brown ground. Inside black.
45.6.9 In handle zone double row of roughly painted ivy leaves, black on light brown. Inside black with reserved line at top of rim. Foot reserved.
47.2.14 light brown colour. Wide mouth, slightly narrower towards the base, with wide foot and flat resting surface.
62.5.1 Decoration is dark (brownish-black fading to red) on a light ground. The interior is decorated with bands around the rim and in the bowl (with an ill-made join). The exterior is decorated with a band around the rim, brown fading to red on the exterior of the handle, and another band where the cup tapers to the base, beneath which six narrow bands in dilute glaze are evenly spaced to the foot, the exterior of which is red.
78.12.10 Light wash all over, moulded egg design on the soulder, moulded ring around discus and a moulded design of a peacock on the discus.
E.23.17 Face comprises top third of piece, angular. Detail on face uses black pigment (beard. eyebrows and what may be hair). Face and clothing in light coloured pigment, green is used around the eyes, the upper body decoration consists of a large red band, a smaller black band of dashes, a blank band, a light blue band, another black dash band, a thick black band, another dash band, another thick red band, another dash band, another blank band, another thin dash band, and finally a thick band made of black tear shaped vertical stripes. There is also some black pigment on what appears to have represented the shoulders.
E.23.43.1 Long cylindrical bead, light blue in colour.
E.23.43.2 Cylindrical bead, light blue glaze, the bead is thickest at one end and tapers to it's thinnest at the other end.
E.23.43.4 Short, cylindrical bead, light blue in colour.
E.23.43.5 Short, cylindrical bead, light blue in colour.
E.23.43.7 Short, blue bead, light blue in colour.
E.23.43.8 Flat, circular bead with a hole for threading through the middle. Light blue in colour.
E.23.43.9 Flat, circular bead, light blue in colour. The hole for threading is slightly off centre.
E.23.49.2 Very light brown in colur. Slightly curved and rectangular in shape, shorter inside edge serrated. Flat underside with 'Kn' written on it.
E.23.49.3 Tapering to a point at both ends, not serrated. Light brown in colour, flat underside with '843' written here, word 'Knife is written on the other side,
E.23.49.5 Triangular, serrated on longest edge; right angle where held, slight notch for gripping. Underside flat, word 'Scraper'written on otherside, light brown in colour.
E.23.55 Light green in colour, arms crossed, details painted in black: eyes, the shoulders ('A' shapes), a basket indicating a worker on the back of the right shoulder, an inscription vertically down/up the front of the body.
E.23.56 Light green in colour, arms crossed, black pigment gives the details of the eyes, the shoulders ('A' shapes). a basket on the back of the right shoulder indicating a workman, an inscription running up/down the centre of the body.
E.23.57 Light green in colour. Black pigment gives the details of the eyes, the shoulders ('A' shapes). a basket on the back of the right shoulder indicates that this represents a workman.
E.26.39A-B Two bracelets, one slightly larger and wider than the other. Probably for child as they are very small. Very light weight and delicate. Both a creamy white colour and smooth on surfaces.
E.63.12 Sacred eye amulet, light blue. The eye is crowned with a rectangular piece containing two smaller sacred eyes, a lion sits on top of this.
E.63.3 Light green figurine of the dwarf god Bes, dancing in a lion's skin with a feather head-dress. There is a hole for threading on the back/base of the head-dress. Although the figure is dancing it appears quite somber.
E.63.4 Light green figurine, partner of Reading E.63.3. It is the dwarf god Bes, dancing in a lion's skin with feather head-dress. There is a hole to enable threading at base/back of the head-dress. The figure stands on a flat base.
E.63.5 Shaped like a draughtsman or pawn chess piece, the figurine has a flat circular base, and tapers to a pointed top. Light blue colour.
E.63.7 Light blue figure of Sakhmet (lion-headed goddess, wife of Ptah). Behind the head is a hole for threading. The figure has the left arm folded over the stomach and is apparently wearing a skirt.
E.63.9 Light green pendant. The image is the goddess of Hathor, goddess of music and dance. Here she is depicted in the form of a highly stylized cow. At the top of the pendant is a loop for threading. The pendant is flat and has the cow-head engraved in the centre with an arch of concentric lines above the head Below the head on either side are parallel vertical lines divided by one horizontal line on both sides.
E.65.16 Minute figure of a deity, identity unclear. The figure is light blue in colour although one area of dark blue pigment remains.
TEMP.2003.7.46 Light brown clay. Small mouth with flared lip. Long slender neck wider at top than bottom turning into pear shaped body with shorter foot and flat base.
TEMP.2003.7.5 Curved and painted on both sides. The "outer" concave side is painted light beige with two small brown bands running lengthwise along it. One band has another smaller brown band (about twice as thin) running beside it throughout the fragment. The other band has a smiliar smaller band, but only measuring about a quarter of the length and running off into the edge. The "inner" convex side is painted dark brown with two white bands running lengthwise. One of the white bands is dashed, while the other is complete.
TEMP.2003.7.6 On the exterior is a light brown line, followed by a cream line, and another brown one, followed by a lighter brown one and brown dots on a cream background. Then another light brown line and more cream until a dark brown circular shape (unclear because the fragment ends here). On the other side the background is dark brown, almost black, with white lines, almost like petals, with light brown dots in them.
TEMP.2003.7.70 Rim fragment decorated with orangey-brown on the exterior and light brown on the interior, with two orangey-brown stripes running across horizontally.
TEMP.2003.7.71 Rim fragment from a kylix with some of the handle. The exterior is dark brown with a light brown tip at the lip of the rim. The interior is light brown with a dark brown tip at the lip.
TEMP.2003.7.73 Interior decorated in dark brown with a thin light brown stripe along the inside lip. The exterior is light brown with dark brown stripes along the top and bottom part of the lip, and along the bottom part of the fragment.
TEMP.2003.7.74 Inside is dark grey coloured, whereas outside is more light orange coloured. Upper part of outside appears to have a black line across the top that has been worn away over time. The middle section has a thicker brown line which likely went around the entirety of the original artefact. Lower part of object is dark grey, again likely part of a larger coloured section of the origional, complete object.
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