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20.56T. 1907(under street no. 2)Western chamber023Base-ring I ceramic jug. Earth fired red-brown with grey core and light brown surface, fine, (drawing) hard, sonorous, slightly porous, fairly light. Temper visible, fairly abundant, small white and black grains, fine to medium. Holes in the surface fairly numerous, generally not burst. Hand-made, fairly carefully finished. Exterior well smoothed, scraped horizontally on the shoulder. Interior of the neck scraped vertically, with a hard brush (or fibrous spatula) very wet. Handle attached straddling the rim and through a hole in the lower shoulder, then surface roughly levelled. Thin slip, largely flaked in the light areas, carefully applied with a brush, horizontally, over the whole exterior and interior of the rim. Black-brown to light brown, beige in places. A "flamed" trace. Slightly lustrous. Small annular base, high, flaring, with an almost straight profile, joined to the body by a tight curve. Body with a tendency biconical, with rounded shoulder. Neck well set off, strongly narrowed from bottom to top in the
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