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Kafkalla

Tomb 34, P27

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Joining and non-joining rim, handle and body fragments of a small bowl. Incurving rounded rim. Pierced lug at rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, horizontal wavy line. On upper body, a horizontal zig-zag (variously three-, four- and five-lined) with three horizontal lines above and variously three and four below. On mid-and lower body, horizontal row of framed hatched lozenges above an isolated hatched lozenge and multiple angled lines (part of an unidentifiable motif). Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 5 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- 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: N2.5/, 5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high