Fabric Description

Pink buff fabric with small dark inclusions, buff mat slip.

Description

Flat, out-turning rim, slightly biconical body, slightly raised ring base, two horizontal handles on shoulder.

Decoration

Decorated with one bull with elongated body, filled with random strokes, small head and horns, grazing on a lotus (?) tree and marked off from the handle by two parallel vertical lines filled with dots/short lines. Each end of the handle is marked with a circle of paint and the other side is decorated with the same bull, but it is almost completely obliterated. It is marked off from the handle with a set of three vertical lines. Parallel bands on carination, below carination and on base in reddish brown fugitive paint.

Comments

Åström mentions that this krater belongs to T43 according to a photograph of this tomb group taken by E. Gjerstad.