Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Fabric Category	Bucchero
Object Type	Vessel
Motif	Guilloche
Year Excavated	1970
Decorative Technique	Molded Ridged
Vessel Form	Plate
Fragment Noted	true
Object Type (notes)	Bucchero Plate, Rim Fragment
Size	Max. Pres. Height (central area to rim) 0.039 m, Max. Pres. Radius of Rim 0.076 m, Max. Pres. Thickness 0.006 m, (Rim 0.009 m), Max. Pres. Width of design band 0.012 m
Condition	Single sherd, broken on all sides but rim; breaks encrusted, as is design.
Description	Fragment of shallow, round plate with flat, very slightly raised rim which is slightly ridged at the top, and marked off from the actual body of the plate by a plain, shallow, molded ridge. The upper surface of the rim has the only decoration: a single molded band of shallow guilloche-type patterns-two parallel horizontal rows of small ellipses touching at their pointed narrow ends, with a raised dot in the center of each; the two rows are connected by thin perpendicular ridges running between the top or bottom center of each ellipse; between each of the perpendiculars is a raised dot, suggesting a honeycomb for the center pattern. This small band is set off from the inner side of the rim by a very shallow, irregular groove, and from the outer edge of the rim by two thin grooves and between them a thin, irregular ridge.
Fabric Description	Bucchero, retains relatively glossy surface.
Has note	The Poggio Civitate Excavation Project website originally included this object at this address: http://www.poggiocivitate.org/catalog/viewartifactcatalog.asp?fid=PC1970027600