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Kafkalla

Tomb 34, P120

Red Polished IV

bowl

Joining and non-joining rim, body and base fragments of a small bowl. Shallow hemispherical body, rounded base. Slightly incurving rounded rim. Small pierced lug at the rim. Slipped black or dark brown over whole vessel. Worn around body and base. Orange fabric visible through slip. Decorated in thin incision, relatively carelessly executed. Below rim, horizontal wavy line. On upper body, horizontal row of hatched lozenges, double-framed on two sides, with two parallel horizontal lines above and below. On lower body, as preserved, six-line concentric circle motifs (thinly incised), double vertical rows of hatched lozenges, an isolated hatched framed rectangle and a four-line horizontal zig-zag. Six encircling lines around edge of base. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 6 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 180 -- Height - full: 57 -- Height to rim: 57 -- Height - maximum diameter: 57 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Wall - base: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/, N3/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/, N3/ -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: light -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: medium -- Inclusions - colour: grey -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium