Reisner, George Andrew: Excavations at Kerma (Dongola-Provinz) (Band 2): Parts IV - V (Cambridge, Mass., 1923)

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Type 1—3. With bird design inside
14. K X, No. xiii (K 1038 = Su 768). Inside: flower rosette; block-border in outline; birds
and flowers (?); rest lost. Outside: flower rosette.
Type I~4- With flower design inside. PL
15. KII room B (14-3-1471); Photo. A 2177, 4/3. Inside: rosette; double line band;
nymph, caer. flower with bud on each side; rest lost. Outside: rosette; double line
band; compartments separated by outline block-border, each containing nymph, caer.
leaf between two flowers.
16. Kill A (comp. 1/3 = 14-3-1240); Photo. A 2177, 4/2. Inside: like 15, above. Outside:
obscure.
17. K IV A, No. ix; Photo. A 2177, 3/1. Inside: center lost; main register, lotus flower, leaf
with bud, nymph, caer. flower, leaf with bud, and so on around the circumference;
band of five-leaved rosettes with dotted spaces. Outside: flower calyx (?).
18. K II room B, debris; Photo. A 2177, 4/1. Inside: center lost; band of wavy, vertical
lines (water); border of two lines with a wavy line between; a row of bunches of
flowers, each of three flowers, growing out of the water; a black line; black rim-band.
Outside: flower calyx; two rows of shaded triangles, pendent; black rim-band.
19. K XVI A, No. xv; Photo. A 2177, 4/5. Inside and outside: loop-rosette; at least two rows
of shaded triangles, erect; rest lost.
20. K XVIII A, No. xii; Photo. A 2177, 2/8. Inside: center, a flower rosette; outline block-
border; two rows of shaded triangles, pendent; block-border; edge of rim, black.
Outside: flower calyx; outline block-border; band of shaded triangles, alternately
pendent and erect and with a zigzag line in space between; black rim-band.
21. K II room B, debris; Photo. A 2177, 4/4. Somewhat like 20, but obscure.
Type 1-5. Form with three or four knob-handles on edge of rim; decorated outside with bird design
+ 22. K II room B; Photo. A 2177, 2/4. Inside: two birds facing each other over a lotus leaf,
with a twig above them; no border; center missing. Outside: center missing; net-
work of four-pointed rosettes; black edge.
23. KII room B; Photo. A 2177, 2/2. Outside: bird, flying to right; single line and black rim-
band; rest missing. Inside: on rim, a broad border of zigzag lobes with the triangular
interstices shaded with horizontal lines. Probably part of 25.
+ 24. K IV A, No. ix; Photo. A 2177, 2/3. Outside: bird, flying to left, over bud and leaf; black
rim-band; rest missing. Inside: center missing; band of four-pointed rosettes with
dot in each separating space; black line, endless spiral scroll with a small rosette of
seven dots in each space; black rim-band.
25. K IV A, No. ix; Photo. A 2177, 2/1. Outside: center missing; bird, flying to right and a
flower with a bud (on each side ?); a line and a black rim-band. Inside: only the rim,
a border of zigzag pointed leaves with horizontal shading. Probably part of 23.
+26. K XI front, debris (15-2-4); Photo. B 3637, 1/4. Exactly like No. 24.
+27. K XV chapel D, debris (15-2-45). Pattern obscure.
28. K XVIII A, No. xii; Photo. A 2177, 2/7. Outside: bird flying to left; outline block-border;
rest missing. Inside: rim only, band with a zigzag line separating shaded triangles
alternately pendent and erect; lattice-band of black lines.
29. K XX, debris; Photo. A 2177, 3/6. Similar to 28.