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20.51(continued)on the neck, rare elsewhere. Surface very worn, on one side of the neck, inside and outside. Hand-made in four parts: base, body, neck, handle. Traces of smoothing with a hard brush or a fibrous spatula (piece of wood) at the base of the neck. Lower and upper body perhaps attached one on the other or assembled one after the other. Neck set on the top of the body (and not pushed in as is the case for jugs): cf. slit at this place, and break. Exterior, and upper part of the inside of the neck, very carefully finished, very well smoothed. Thin slip, carefully applied over the whole vessel, inside as well as outside, with a brush, horizontally, on the outside, perhaps by simple dipping on the inside (no brush traces). Finely burnished on the outside and on the upper half of the inside of the neck. Black overall, grey olive on the right part of the body. Shape: small, very low ring base, with an approximately triangular section, surrounding a base barely convex. Biconical body with softened carination. Neck narrowing from bottom to top, rim flaring with square lip. Handle attached, from the top
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain