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Code
Ar/Ab.AB1.01.C.03
Recorder
Alan Greene
Period
Early Bronze Age / Ранняя Бронза
Remarks

Typical KA 'cup' fragment with a black-polished exterior and (reddish) brown interior. The sherd exhibits abrasion and corrosion over approximately 30% of the exterior surface, 10% over the interior, where coarse sand inclusions are visible pressing against the fabric limit. Like many KA vessels, there is some bleeding of the reddish brown interior color across the rim boundary onto the beginning of the exterior surface. The triangle pattern is pressed into the 'belt' on the vessel's neck and is composed of 3-5 pressed hatches per triangle, set into two opposing rows, resembling an interlocking tooth design. The beginning of an embossed decoration is visible on the shoulder, perhaps a spiral or portions of a figure. Sherd sent to Yerevan in summer 2007 in order to be drawn by Hasmik.

Possible Function
Indeterminate
Hardness
Apatite
Inclusions
Fine Sand
Sorting
Poorly Sorted
Surface Treatment (Exterior)
Slipped & Polished / Обмаз. Полированная
Surface Treatment (Interior)
Smoothed / Выглаженная
Measurements
Length (max)
52.1mm
Width (max)
45.0mm
Thickness
5.9mm
Colors

From Interior to Exterior

Interior Color
Brown 7.5YR 5/3
Exterior Color
Very Dark Gray GY1 3/N
Core Bands
Brown 7.5YR 4/4
Black GY1 2.5/N
Dominant Core Band
2
Decoration
Elements from Top to Bottom
Line / Линия