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with a dull burnish (S.C.W.); (6) ordinary red-brown ware with a red wash and with or
without a pebble burnish (R-B.W.); (c) better levigated and harder baked red ware,
usually with a yellow slip and decorated (F.R.W.); (d) rather fine black, pebble burnished









K 30=2

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Fig. 12

and decorated with cut lines (Blk.J.W.). As usual, the qualities (a), (6), and (c) merge into
one another in the examples found.
The forms include cups, bowls, jugs, and bottles (for water, wine, beer); narrow-necked
bulging jars (for water, oil, etc.); bag-shaped jars (for grain, liquids, fats); and large jars
(for water, grain). The large wide-mouthed cooking-pot did not occur.
(1) Type i. cups (tumblers) and bowls
F. Db. I 1: Decorated cup (tumbler) of fine light paste, in some examples burning
pinkish, with a fine light dressing varying from cream color to faint pink.
Decoration in red and black. K 3, 7, 9, 15, 17, 22, 30 (Fig. 12, 1-6).
F. Db. 12: Decorated deep bowl, with rounded bottom, of same paste. Decoration in
red and black. K 27 (Fig. 12, 7).