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NM Ant 1597 :: bowl

Object description: Hemispherical deep bowl, round base. Wide wishbone handle. Fine, brick clay; smooth, light gray slip; matt, dark brown paint. Tiny vertical lines encircling outside rim. Band of ladder pattern encircling upper body below rim, starting and ending above handle. Four groups of H-shaped ladder pattern bands with a row of hatched loozenges in the middle; of which one group is situated below handle. The frontal group has rows of vertical blank loozenges in the two upper squares of the H-shape. Short, vertical rows of hatched lozenges in the interstices between groups. Lines encircling abutments of handle. Wavy line on underside of handle. Four groups of four parallel lines on upper side of handle. Four small dots in spaces between groups of lines. On tip of handle, a small circle.