Detail View: DeneiaArchive:

Cemetery: 
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item: 
Tomb 34, P11
Ware: 
Red Polished IV
Shape: 
bowl
Notes: 
Rim and body sherd from medium-sized bowl. Incurving wall, swelling to narrow sharply pointed rim with marked downslope toward interior. Narrow (5mm) horizontal band of low relief 25mm below rim, with poorly executed angled dashes. 37mm below rim surface colour changes sharply from brownish-pink (2.5YR5/4) to orange red (ca 5mm wide) and then dark grey, suggesting stacking during firing. Drawn.
Description: 
General shape: large open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thickening -- Rim end: pointed -- Rim diameter - general: 200-300 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR5/4 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR4/0 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR5/6 -- Colour - core: dark -- Texture: medium -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: rel+inc -- Decoration quality: poor