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Code
Ar/Ab.AB2.09.C.03
Coded on
2012-05-08
Recorder
Alan Greene
Period
Late Bronze I - Iron 1b
Remarks

An undecorated black on black LM vessel, likely LB, highly abraded, but polished on both the internal and external surfaces. The fragment is restored from 3 sub-fragments. Convexity of the base is ever so slight. The external surface is much more abraded than the internal surface, leaving very little visible polish and/or polishing marks. The internal surface features many more polish marks, which do not run circumferentially, but in perpendicular/skew sets of horizontal lines throughout. Besides the dominant fine sand inclusions, very fine sand and medium sand particles are also visible in the breaks. Even larger particles (as large as very coarse sand) appear to perforate the internal and external surfaces of the fragment (the external much more than the internal). Breaks are rough. Brown corrosion is very slight.

Status
Restored
Variant
Indeterminate / неопределенный
Mode
Large Indeterminate / Сосуд
Possible Function
Indeterminate
Hardness
Fluorite
Inclusions
Fine Sand
Sorting
Poorly Sorted
Surface Treatment (Exterior)
Slipped & Polished / Обмаз. Полированная
Surface Treatment (Interior)
Slipped & Polished / Обмаз. Полированная
Measurements
Length (max)
133.3mm
Width (max)
99.19mm
Thickness
6.34mm
Colors

From Interior to Exterior

Interior Color
Black GY1 2.5/N
Exterior Color
Black GY1 2.5/N
Core Bands
Black GY1 2.5/N
Dark Gray 5YR 4/1
Black GY1 2.5/N
Dominant Core Band
2