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Cemetery: 
Mali
Tomb and Item: 
Tomb 172, P1
Ware: 
Red Polished Black Top
Shape: 
bowl
Notes: 
Rim, handle and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Pierced lug handle at the rim. Medium to high lustre on interior and exterior. Fine parallel abrasion marks on area of rim, perpendicular to line of rim, and possibly on body break edge. Not decorated. Not drawn.
Description: 
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR4/6, 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/6 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none