A12i108

File: /MZ/A/A12/D/I//MZ/A/A12/D/I/0108.HTM
Processed on 7-14-2022
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Labeling/Designation
category !! !! ceramic vessel [Input File: !!]
definition (typological label) 2000-7-20 jl ceramic vessel [Input File: K720jl.j]
2000-8-04 sb [Input File: K804sb.j]

Description/Count
description (summary) 2000-7-20 jl a small tripod vessel, two legs intact, with a woman's face, arms, and body on one side, and what appears to be her hair surrounding the pot neck and continuing in a stripe down the other side. The neck was right next to the vessel, broken off, and the rim itself is missing. [Input File: K720jl.j]
best view 2001-2-26 jl V13d1112 [Input File: M815jl.j]
2001-2-26 jl V13d1635 [Input File: M815jl.j]
2001-2-26 jl V13d1657 [Input File: M815jl.j]
2001-2-26 jl W13c2504 [Input File: M815jl.j]
field definition 2000-7-20 ed ceramic vessel [Input File: K720jl.j]
field ware or material 2000-7-20 ed cl [Input File: K720jl.j]
field notes 2000-7-20 ed anthropomorphic vessel [Input File: K720jl.j]

Axial Definition
inclination 2000-7-20 jl lying on side, slightly tilted down to N, face down [Input File: K720jl.j]
orientation 2000-7-20 jl top of pot points NNE (spout), as does top of head [Input File: K720jl.j]
rotation 2000-7-20 jl one intact leg sticking straight up, person's face pointing down [Input File: K720jl.j]

Contact Association
type of contact: contemporary events/movable items 2000-7-20 ed i108 (ceramic vessel) sits in f343 (accumulation A) [Input File: K720jl.j]

Spatial Aggregation
q-lot with which item is associated 2000-7-20 ed 709 [Input File: K720jl.j]

Descriptive
preservation 2000-8-04 sb almost complete; two of the three small feet at the base are partially broken; the small vase on top of the head was broken while digging, it is broken in 2 halves [Input File: K804sb.j]
shape, form 2000-8-04 sb small vessel shaped as a woman [Input File: K804sb.j]
color 2000-7-20 jl greenish [Input File: K720jl.j]
2000-8-04 sb dark grey [Input File: K804sb.j]
notes on typology 2000-8-04 yt textual analysis - a. texture: clay body is soft(ash like). Since the clay had high viscosity, the surface is uneven. Several finger prints are observed. Light gray colour. It does not have enough oxidation firing. Chaff tempers remain as carbon in clay matrix. Particle size is uniform. b. inclusions: fibre remains(carbon) ++ (fairly), calareous ++ (fairly), pebbles - (few) [Input File: K804sb.j]

Manufacturing
notes on manufacturing 2000-8-04 yt technical examination - This small jar with a woman's figure was made by wheel-forming and hand-forming. The small pot on her head is located in the perfect center of jar. The hair, arms, face, breasts and legs were added on the ceramic body by hand. Three legs and top part of the small pot are partly missing. Her braied hair part, face details, necklace, bangles on both arms and triangle-shaped genitalia are incised with a sharp tool. The nipples, the genitalia and the necklace were decorated as round pressed pattern with cylindrical tools. The surface was carefully burnished. [Input File: K804sb.j]

Conservation
current conditions 2000-8-04 sb the piece was completely covered by a thick hard layer of soil [Input File: K804sb.j]
procedures employed 2000-8-04 sb removed the soil by scalpel and brushes, reattached the small vase; one small fragment is missing [Input File: K804sb.j]

Disposition