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and other unsuccesful cases Cat. Nos 16, 23, 24, etc.). With only one exception (Cat. No. 15) these pedestalled vessels belong to the class of fine ware, and again with a few exceptions (Cat. Nos. 16, 23, 24, etc.) are always undecorated. 2. Carinated bowls. Unlike normal carinated bowls with a concave upper wall the Bicske carinated bowls have a convex form above the carination line. The belly and the shoulder of the carinated bowls are convex and the neck is relatively short. The carination of these vessels may be either sharply angled or rounded. The neck may be missing completely with the mouth of the vessel ending in a rounded rim (Cat. 4). Seen from above these vessels have a rounded mouth and base, although the body takes on a somewhat triangular shape the points of which are emphasized by small knobs at the point of carination (PI. VI,la;4a). The majority of these bowls are decorated with broadly and deeply incised lines whose motif is related to the vessel form and any knobs on the vessel body. If the form of the decoration is incision then one may find one, two or three broad vertical lines above each knob, and one or two horizontal lines between each of the knobs. Other forms of the incised decoration take the forms of semicircular lines extending from the knobs almost to the neck of the vessel, and nested within each other. A third form of decoration involves a line of one, two or three impressed dots above each knob and between these lines one or two impressed dots also in a vertical line (Cat. Nos 1 — 4, 12, 67 — 69,111, 129, 130, 131, 133, 135). In one case (Cat. No. 2) the incisions are filled with a black substance, now burnt. 3. Hemispherical bowls. The base of hemispherical bowls may be flat or rounded. A majority of the reconstructed vessels and sherds belong to this type. There are small and large examples of this type, both sizes being most commonly undecorated (Cat. Nos 20, 28, 37, 39, 41, 42, 124, 127). From this vessel form there is only one example with some form of decoration, in this case four sets of hemispherical impressed lines running around the base of the dish (Cat. No. 20). It is extremely difficult to distinguish between sherds coming from such bowls and the bowls of pedestalled vessels of this form although those decorated sherds with thin incised or impressed lines may belong to pedestalled vessels (Cat. Nos 39, 41). 4. Bound-based bowls. Such base forms are very typical in the ceramic material of Bicske. There is one vessel of this form which is complete however (Cat. No. 19). This lack suggests that the round based vessel form was in common daily use and as such more likely to get broken. This round-based bowl may frequently be found in conjunction with expending walls which flare most sharply toward the rim creating the wavy profile seen in most sherds. These vessels are undecorated and seen from above appear ovoid in form with one end slightly pointed. The bowls have medium thick walls and are lightly smoothed and sometimes polished. Many similar pieces of this vessel type were found both in house 1. 1971 (Cat. 27, 29, 105, 106) and in the pit 1. of trench III. 1976 (Cat. Nos 19, 47, 51). Of course, these two sherds (Cat. Nos 47 and 51) may come from pedestalled vessels. 5. Flat based conical bowls. This type is common and usually without decoration. We have many sherds (Cat. Nos. 120, 122) and a few reconstructed pieces (Cat. Nos 7, 8, 9, 11, 14) of this bowl form. 6. Small convex walled cup-like bowls. These bowls have a slightly inverted rim. This vessel form (Cat. No. 7) is known only from one reconstructed piece, since sherds from this type are usually too small to identify. 7. An other rare form are small double convex carinated bowls (Cat. Nos. 13 and probably 104, 135). 8. In 1971 two miniature cylindrical body vessels were found in house 1. 1971. One was found under a large storage vessel (Cat. No. 18) in the center of the house (Cat. No. 5), while the second in the southwestern edge of the house among fragments of red coloring materials and near a bone spoon (Cat. No. 6). Both pieces are undamaged with totally unfinished surfaces. 9. Reconstruction was possible on only four pieces of the large coarse type of vessel. These four vessels fall into two types. The first type are large mouthed globular jars with flat bottoms and sharply inverted rims, found in the pit of trench III. 1976 (Cat. Nos 21 and 22). The surface decoration of this jar type — as can be seen on the largest vessel found at Bicske — is a combination of fluted barbotine and a scratched or finger tipped smoothed surface. The barbotine may take the form of a semicircular decorative motif running between two large double knobs on the body of the jar (Cat. No. 22). This latter form of decoration is very similar to the deep incised lines known on the carinated bowls described earlier. On the second vessel of this form (Cat. No. 21) the belly of the jar is decorated with vertical finger-tipped barbotine channelling. The upper part of this vessel has a scratched surface which was later slightly smoothed with some plastic work around to the middle of the body. On the shoulder there are four knobs at different heights and also four knobs in the corresponding line at the base. The other vessel form includes two jars from house 1. 1971. The walls of these jars are still convex, but in generally less sharp than those of the first form (Cat. Nos 17—18). Around the rim of both vessels there are undecorated bands. The body of this vessel is covered with vertical barbotine channelling (Cat. No. 18). The second vessel (Cat. No. 17) is decorated with lines of pinched impressions. There is one line of horizontal impressions around the rim, a group of oblique running lines on one part of the body, and on the remaining parts of the body vertical lines of pinched impressions. As previously mentioned, these flat-based jars show signs of wear on the bottom. Only the jar found standing in the chimney of an oven shows no signs of such wear (Cat. No. 17). 21