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Kafkalla

Tomb 215, P14

Proto White Slip

bowl

Mended rim, handle, body and base fragment of a small bowl. Hemispherical body, round base. Incurving rounded rim. Uptilted horizontal handle below rim, oval in section (mostly missing). Exterior slip cream-buff to light orange-brown. Interior slip cream-buff. Decorated in orange-brown paint. Solid paint on rim, extending below rim on interior and exterior. On exterior three parallel horizontal lines below rim and at mid-body. In between, a three-line horizontal zigzag. On lower body, pendent from lower set of three lines, four sets of three vertical lines extend but do not meet on base (one set vertical from rim between arms of handle). Band on side of handle. Two or more parallel horizontal lines on surface of handle, as preserved. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 9 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 120 -- Height to rim: 76 -- Height - maximum diameter: 60 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 8 -- Handle section 2: 11 -- Exterior slip: thick -- Interior slip: thick -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Interior lustre: slight -- Paint lustre: matt? -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 7.5YR8/4, 7.5YR8/6 -- Colour interior: 7.5YR8/4 -- Colour - paint: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR4/6 -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: many -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, white, grey -- Hardness: very hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium