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P2700 Not pub. Pithos (fragmentary) LC II-III Pithos Taylor p. 118 "coarse white ware"? Wheel-made. Clay pink, coarse and gritty. Yellow to grey green slip. Mended: Portion of shoulder with part of neck and part of belly showing a zone with rope design. The shoulder is marked off from this decorated zone below, and from the neck above, by a band in the same technique as the rope loops. This technique seems to have consisted in running the blunt end of a stick, or perhaps the thumb, over the clay before baking, thus creating two roughly parallel ridges with a flat track in the center. In places these ridges are flanked by
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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain