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Kafkalla

Tomb 215, P31

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Joining and non-joining rim and body fragments from a small bowl. Incurving rounded rim. Thinly incised decoration, not executed with a multiple tool. Below rim, four parallel horizontal lines. On body, eight-line concentric circle motifs (thinly drawn) with short horizontal and vertical four-line zig-zags above and between them. Six or more encircling lines around base. Not drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 11 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 180 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5YR5/6, 2.5YR4/8, N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/4 -- Colour - core: light -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: red -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium