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Kafkalla

Tomb 185, P12

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Joining and non-joining rim, handle and body fragments from a small bowl. Incurving rounded rim. Small lug handle at the rim, only just perforated. Incised decoration. Below rim, four horizontal lines. On upper body four-line horizontal zig-zag, above isolated hatched lozenges and four- or more line concentric circle motifs. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 8 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 160 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thick -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/, 5YR5/6, 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: 5YR5/6 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: grey -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium