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2.1 cm. thick and the other 1.8 cm. wide by 7 mm. thick. One 
example attached to the body wall is expanded at the junction. 
2. Lugs. Three sherds have a horizontal ornamental lug attached at 
the maximum body diameter. Horizontal width is 4.5 em., pro- 
jection from the body wall 8-11 mm. Thickness decreases from 
a maximum of 10 mm. at the body wall to 3 or 4 mm. at the edge. 
TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE TYPE: Common vessel shapes 2 and 4 are 
restricted to the first half of the seriated sequence. The same appears to be 
true of Rare Forms 1 and 3 (Appendix, table 27). Although the sample is 
small, it suggests that flat bases decline in popularity and round ones increase 
during the time span of the Abary Phase. 
CHRONOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE TYPE: Taurakuli Plain is the dominant pottery 
type of the Abary Phase, except at the earliest levels of the earliest site (fig. 
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TIGER ISLAND PLAIN 
PASTE: 
Method of manufacture: Coiling, breakage frequent along coil lines. Width 
of coils 1.0-1.5 em. 
Temper: Cariapé, with some particles 1-2 mm. wide and 5-10 mm. long. 
Color is white or black. Temper is very abundant and readily visible to 
the naked eye. Particles lie at all angles in the cross section, but larger 
ones tend to be parallel to the surface. 
Texture: Soft and nonabrasive ; compact with air pockets rarely visible. 
Color: Light tan to light orange to orange gray to light gray to dark gray. 
Color gradations are gradual. The majority have a gray core with a 
broader band of orange along the exterior than along the interior. 
Firing: Oxidizing, usually incomplete. 
SURFACE: 
Color: Both exterior and interior are typically orange tan, occasionally tile 
orange or reddish orange. Uneroded surfaces are rarely gray, but eroded 
ones sometimes have that appearance because of exposure of the gray core. 
Treatment: Both interior and exterior are very uneven and irregular sug- 
gesting smoothing with the hand to obliterate coil junctions, but little if 
any use of a scraper. Temper particles exposed on the surface erode away 
leaving pits. Because of the softness of the paste, uneroded surfaces are 
rare. 
Hardness: 2.5. 
ForM : 
Rim: Direct with rounded or flattened lip; interiorly thickened and slightly 
everted with rounded lip; strongly everted producing a broad flange. 
Body wall thickness: 5-20 mm.; majority 6-8 mm. The upper extreme 
represents flat, thickened bases. 
Base: 
A. Flat, thickened or unthickened, rounded or angular junction with 
sidewalls. Diameter 8-14 cm. (fig. 70, A). 
B. Rounded and slightly thickened (fig. 70, B). 
C. Annular, height 1 cm., diameter 12 em. (fig. 70, C). 
Common vessel shapes reconstructed from sherds: 
1. Bowls with outsloping to nearly vertical side walls, direct rim and 
flattened or rounded lip. Rim diameter 12-32 em.; majority 20-32 
em. (fig. 70-1). 
2. Bowls with interiorly thickened rim, typically also everted, with a 
rounded lip. Rim diameter 20-38 cm, (fig. 70-2). 
