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Lip: Rounded or slightly flattened. 



Base: Probably rounded or slightly flattened. 



10. Rounded Jar With Constricted Mouth (fig. 20, 10) : 



Rim: Incurving and direct or slightly expanded. Mouth diameter 8-20 



cm. 

 Lip: Rounded. 

 Base: Probably rounded or slightly flattened. 



11. Jar With Exteriorly Thickened Rim (fig. 20, 11): 



Rim: Incurving from rounded or slightly angular shoulder and thickened 

 on the exterior to 1-4 times the thickness of the body wall. Thickened 

 area is 1.3-4.5 cm. wide, the smaller rims belonging to smaller sized jars. 

 Rim interior is typically concave, exterior convex. Mouth diameter 

 ranges from 20-46 cm. 



Lip: Rounded. 



Base: Probably rounded or slightly flattened. 



12. Large Compotera With Apron Flange (fig. 21, 12): 



Rim: Slightly everted and thickened, with a broad flange added 1-3 cm. 

 from the lip on the exterior. More rarely, the flange is not inset, but 

 drops from the edge of the rim. The flange is 3.5-5.0 cm. wide and may 

 be insloping, vertical or outsloping. Rim diameter ranges from 24-44 

 cm. 



Lip: Rounded or tapered. 



Base: A tall annular pedestal with diameter 20-30 cm. 



13. Large Compotera (fig. 21, 13) : 



Rim: Slightly expanded or slightly everted with flattened top. Occasional- 

 ly with a low ridge on the exterior 4-5 cm. below lip. Exterior rim 

 diameter, 28-50 cm. 



Lip: Rounded. 



Base: Tall annular pedestal with diameter 20-30 cm. 



BASE FORM 



Sherds of several base forms, in addition to the common slightly 

 flattened type, are represented in the pottery samples (fig. 22). Un- 

 fortunately, all of the complete vessels recovered have rounded or 

 slightly flattened bases, so that reconstruction of the vessel forms to 

 which the annular, pedestal, and polypod bases belong must be inferred 

 from other kinds of evidence. One vessel shape and rim is clearly 

 associated with a polypod base and this is shown on the diagram of 

 rim and reconstructed vessel shapes (fig. 20, 8); the other associations 

 are too uncertain to appear on the diagram. 



1. Rounded or Slightly Flattened: All the complete bowls are slightly flat- 



tened on the bottom so that the vessel will rest without tipping. The base 

 is not sharply deflned, but blends into the curved body wall. This form of 

 base is probably the most common, and is probably associated with most, 

 if not all, of the rim forms. 



2. Annular (fig. 22, a): A low annular ring, with a base diameter of 8-20 cm., 



and a height of 1.5-4.5 cm., is represented in the following pottery types: 

 Jambeli Plain, Ayalan Plain, Jambelf White-on-Red, Jambell Polished Red, 

 Jambeli Red Banded, and Jambeli Negative. 



