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Kafkalla

Tomb 215, P11

White Painted III

bowl

Mended rim, body, handle and base fragment of a small bowl. Hemispherical body, rounded base. Incurved rounded rim. Horizontal handle from below rim. Slip not well preserved. Decorated with matt red-brown paint. Solid paint on rim. Three parallel bands on each arm of handle and band on edge of handle, as preserved. On interior, horizontal wavy line below rim. Two pairs of parallel vertical lines pendent from rim, meeting but not crossing at centre of base. Short wavy line in each of the four interstices. On exterior, three-line horizontal zig-zag below rim, above horizontal line. Three parallel vertical lines from between the arms of the handle to opposite side of vessel; to each side oppositely angled sets of three parallel lines with a short wavy line in each of the two forward interstices. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, body, handle, base -- Joins: 3 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 92 -- Height to rim: 48 -- Height - maximum diameter: 38 -- Diameter - body: 100 -- Wall below rim: 2 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 5.5 -- Handle section 2: 8.4 -- Exterior slip: worn -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour interior: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - paint: 10R4/6 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: light -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white, grey -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium