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VESSEL SCALE 
RIM SCALE 
Ficure 68.—Rim profiles and reconstructed vessel shapes of the Abary Plain, Abary Phase 
(Appendix, table 26). 
bowls were better finished on the interior and jars on the exterior. One 
sherd shows smoothing tracks on the exterior, a feature that may have 
been relatively common but is now obliterated by erosion. 
Hardness: 2.5-3.5. 
IorM : 
Rim: Direct, with rounded lip. 
Body wall thickness: 5-11 mm., with bases occasionally 1.5 cm. thick. 
Base: A—Flattened (rare); B—rounded and slightly thickened on the 
interior, so that it is flatter than the exterior. 
Vessel shapes reconstructed from sherds: 
1. Shallow to deep bowls with outsloping to nearly vertical side walls, 
direct rim and rounded lip. Rim diameter 12-28 cm.; majority 
16-24 em. (fig. 68-1). 
2. Rounded jars with walls insloping to slightly constricted mouth 
with direct rim and rounded lip. Mouth diameter 12-22 cm. (fig. 
68-2). 
TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE TYPE: 
There is a tendency for the size of the temper grains to decrease, so that 
sherds of Abary Plain from B-3, the latest site, contain finer sand than 
those from the two earlier sites. 
There are no temporal differences discernible in vessel shape (Appendix, 
table 26). 
CHRONOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE TYPE: Abary Plain occurs throughout the Abary 
Phase in an increasing frequency, growing from rare and sporadic appear- 
ances in the early levels to a maximum of 38.5 percent at the last site (fig. 77). 
TAURAKULI PLAIN 
PASTE: 
Method of manufacture: Coiling; frequent breaks along coil lines show 
coils 1.0-1.5 cm. wide, with the majority 1.2-1.3 cm. wide. 
Temper: Fragments of crushed potsherds, from minute grains up to 6 mm. 
in diameter. A few show the flat surface of the original sherd. Orange, 
angular sherd particles are very distinct in gray-cored sherds, giving a 
splotched appearance. Reddish-orange particles appear to be natural 
iron impurities of the clay. 
