Cemetery:
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Mali
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Tomb and Item:
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Tomb 172, P2
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Ware:
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Red Polished III
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Shape:
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bowl
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Notes:
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Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim with small plain rim projection. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, nine parallel horizontal lines. On body, as preserved, eight-line horizontal zig-zag with unframed hatched rectangles in the interstices. Abrasion marks on inside of area of rim. Drawn.
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Description:
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General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim projection: single plain -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised
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