Deep Cup.

Small part of rim and about one-fourth of upper body preserved, with edge of lip missing; restored.

Deep bowl with greatest diameter near bottom. Wall decorated with evenly spaced groups of three vertical grooves. At top of wall, row of fine, vertical grooves between two horizontal grooves. Lower body pared, undecorated. High, slightly inset and flaring rim. Fine, fairly hard, slightly micaceous, gray fabric (10YR 5/1) with some large white inclusions; very micaceous glaze, dull black outside, olive inside, mostly missing.

For gouging see Tarsus I, nos. 539, 540, 546, 548, 549, pp. 251--252, fig. 146, in a ware identified as black ESA, with the fabric often fired gray; the date is 1st century after Christ( pp. 184--185). Cf. also 1586--1588.