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Kafkalla tis Malis

Tomb 55, P68

White Painted IV

bowl

Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurving rounded rim. Creamy-yellow slip. Dark orange-brown fabric. Decorated in matt red-brown paint (with relatively thin lines ending in points). Solid paint on rim. On interior, thick horizontal wavy line below rim and another at mid-body. On exterior, on upper body, horizontal six-line zig-zag above three horizontal lines; solid circle in the interstice, as preserved; on lower body two or more vertical lines to base, as preserved. 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: 3 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/4 -- Colour interior: 10YR8/4 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR5/6 -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted