Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (4.1992(1993))

103 and Hayes form 3 from Asia Minor). Painted pottery is a
rarity and is usually characterised by a simple decoration consist-
ing of semicircular arcades, almost exclusively adorning carinated
bowls. The only figural motif is in the decoration of a storage jar
painted in a rather primitive fashion on the shoulders (max. diam.
40-60 cm) (Fig. 1); the motif consisted of two birds (peacocks ?)
turned to face a Greek cross.


Fig. 1. Motif of birds adoring a Greek cross painted on a storage
vessel from site B. (AH drawings by author).
Three forms have been identified at Naqlun for the first
time. A clay pail (Fig. 2) is semicircular with a strongly outtur-
ned rim and a wide semicircular handle attached to the upper
edges. The shoulders of the vessel were decorated with white
intersecting garlands, and there were white dots on the handle.
The pail was presumably used to carry some kind of oilish
substance to judge by the numerous dark stains on the outside.
Another unknown form is a clay funnel. (Fig. 3) Its
bottom part was made into a projecting collar which permitted it
to be positioned on the neck of the vessel which was
being filled. Just below the upper edge there are two openings

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