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Code
Ar/Ge.T16.117.C.17
Coded on
2011-10-07
Recorder
Alan Greene
Period
Late Bronze Age / Поздней бронзы
Remarks

This fragment constitutes an essentially complete vessel base, likely a medium-sized jar. It has very interesting fabric structure, where the coarse sand included dominant layer has been coated on the vessel interior with an approximately 2mm-thick layer of very-coarse or grit included clay, slightly lighter in color. The layer is highly visible at certain breaks where it has completely delaminated. This application is completely coarse and there are particles of all sizes poking through the unsmoothed surface. Large pieces of mica and obsidian, I believe, are visible in the internal surface. There are smaller sand particles visible in the fabric in addition to the coarse sand recorded above. External surface is highly abraded and all abrasions contain white corrosion, perhaps 50% of the surface area Breaks are smooth.

Variant
Indeterminate / неопределенный
Mode
Large Indeterminate / Сосуд
Hardness
Apatite
Inclusions
Coarse Sand
Sorting
Well Sorted
Surface Treatment (Exterior)
Slipped & Smoothed / Обмаз. Выглаженная
Surface Treatment (Interior)
Coarse (untreated) / Грубыая (необработ.)
Measurements
Length (max)
178.4mm
Width (max)
144.2mm
Thickness
7.0mm
Colors

From Interior to Exterior

Interior Color
Dark Gray 7.5YR 4/1
Exterior Color
Very Dark Gray GY1 3/N
Core Bands
Dark Gray GY1 4/N
Black GY1 2.5/N
Dominant Core Band
2