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Kafkalla tis Malis

Tomb 55, P29

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, horizontal zig-zag or wavy line above four horizontal lines. Below, a horizontal row of hatched single-framed lozenges above three horizontal lines. On mid to lower body, four-line pendent concentric semicircle motifs with two or more small dots at the centre, above a horizontal zig-zag and other horizontal lines. Very fine to fine fabric. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR5/6, 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised