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Kafkalla

Tomb 185, P18

White Painted IV

bowl

Small bowl. Almost complete. Shallow hemispherical body with wide flattened base (not offset). Incurving wall with flaring flattened rim, downsloping to interior. High vertical handle, rectangular in section, from the rim. Decorated in matt dark brown with small area of orange-red. On interior horizontal band below rim; double vertical bands pendent from rim, meeting but not crossing on base. Several sets of three or four parallel lines on rim. On exterior horizontal band below rim. On body, horizontal row of hatched upright triangles, double-framed to the left only, above two horizontal lines. Base area divided by two double-framed wavy lines into four segments. In each segment a circle with central dot. Solid paint? on handle. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 18 -- Rim course: flaring -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: flattened -- Base type: flat -- Handle type: high vertical -- Handle section: rectangle -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 130 -- Height to rim: 45 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 3 -- Handle section 1: 7 -- Handle section 2: 12 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/4, 10YR7/4 -- Colour interior: 10YR8/4, 10YR7/4 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR4/2, 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5Y7/3 -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, brown -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: high