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cised and Punctate sherds appear on this steatite-tempered paste. See these 
various type descriptions for details of color, temper, firing, and surface 
treatment. 
ForM: 
Rim: Direct with rounded or slightly tapered lip; unthickened or slightly 
thickened and everted with a tapered lip; interiorly or exteriorly thickened 
with rounded lip. 
Body wall thickness: 4-10 mm. ; majority 5-6 mm. 
Body diameters: 16-30 cm. 
Base: Those typical of the plain pottery types: flat, flat pedestal, and 
annular. 
Majority vessel shapes reconstructed from sherds: 
1. Open bowls with direct rim and usually rounded but sometimes slightly 
tapered lip. The sidewalls are outslanting to vertical. Rim diameter 
14-32 cm., majority 26 em. Decoration on interior or exterior (fig. 
41-1). 
2. Bowls or jars with incurving side walls, constricted mouth, direct rim, 
and rounded lip. Mouth diameter 18-80 em. Decoration on exterior 
(fig. 41-2). : 
3. Open bowls with sharply everted rims. The rim is either unthickened 
or slightly thickened (1-2 mm.) on the interior. The everted part 
measures 1.0-2.5 em. wide. Mouth diameter 16-24 cm. Decoration on 
exterior or rim top (fig. 41-3). 
4, Open bowls with interiorly thickened rim (1-2 mm.) and tapered or 
rounded lip. Width of rim thickening 1.5-2.5 mm.; rim diameter 
18-28 cm., majority 18-20 cm. Decoration on interior rim thickening 
(fig. 41-4). 
5. A few miscellaneous sherds represent globular jars with a short neck 
and an externally thickened rim 1.0-2.5 cm. wide, or small globular 
jars with slightly thickened, everted rims with a mouth diameter of 
10-16 em. 
DECORATION (pls. 23, a—g, 26, 27; figs. 42-43) : 
Technique: Incisions are smooth and well made, with a broad, U-shaped 
channel ranging in width from 1.5-2.0 mm. and in depth less than 1 mm. 
Lines are straight, uniform in width on a single sherd, and reasonably 
parallel. The ends are frequently tapered when not terminating in a 
punctate. Punctates are either circular, with a diameter of about 2 mm., 
or ovoid, measuring from 2 by 4mm.to3by5mm. The hole is U-shaped 
or V-shaped, and typically about twice as deep as the incisions, although 
there is great variation in depth on a single sherd. Lines and punctates 
are combined in three different motifs, and two of these are rarely found 
on a Single vessel. 
Motif: 
1. Incised lines ending in punctures, with the punctate either at the 
end of the line or a few millimeters away beside or beyond the 
terminus. This motif occurs in an all-over design on the exterior 
or interior. Wxecution may be continuous or zoned, with areas 
containing straight or curved, parallel lines alternating with blank 
areas. Sherds are too small to show much of the total decoration 
(pl. 26, a-h ; fig. 42). 
2. Incised lines alternating with punctates. Motif 2 occurs in narrow 
bands along the rim, usually on the interior or exterior thickening. 
There are two main variations, an undulating incised line winding 
between punctates (pl. 27, b-f; fig. 48, a—c), and groups of short, 
