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Jug – Fine Grey Ware

Origin

Monte Padrão, Monte Córdova, Santo Tirso

Material

Ceramic. Highly refined, hard paste with homogeneous firing (M31). Non-plastic inclusions composed exclusively of very fine, well-calibrated mica particles. Surface smoothed and poorly polished (N31).

Description

Fragment of rim and adjoining wall of a jug. S-profile indicating an oval body. Curved wall with short neck and rim projecting outwards. Lip of rounded section, of the same thickness as the wall. A triangular-profile groove marks the lower limit of the neck and the beginning of the body. Burnished decoration on the neck and body made up of vertical parallel lines, ending below in a meander motif.

Classification and chronology

Type ... / Monte Padrão - Phase VI

Dimensions

Maximum diameter: 69 mm; Maximum height: 45 mm; Maximum wall thickness: 3 mm.

Deposit

MMAP [PAD. IIX, s/n.º]

Bibli.

SOEIRO 1981-1982, 107, Est. X, 8; MOREIRA 2007, 71.