ECA-V-025

This large, well made bowl may originally have been supported on a pedestal. The interior is well burnished but not decorated. The inner edge of the lip has a row of stamped circles (motif A417), and an outer design (motif PK133) of cutouts and stamping in the “double beaked bird” design, very finely executed. On the exterior, the decoration begins with an A1/A2 motif (the semicircles are sometimes made with a single stamp, and sometimes with a double stamp), below which is zone marker RZ6D-4-1. The main motif consists of PK84, a variant of the zigzag design, with diamonds and an undulating row of stamped circles along the bottom. It is evident that this was not the only main motif present, however, for there is a fragment (TFG2320) of what was clearly an anthropomorphic face, which must have alternated with motif PK84. The remaining fragment is of an upraised “arm” with five digits, represented by narrow stamped triangles, very similar to the “arms” that define both sides of the face on vessel ECA-V-045. The decoration on this bowl exhibits a high degree of technical and artistic skill.