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Kafkalla

Tomb 763, P10

Black Polished

bowl

Rim, body and base fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Round base. Fine incised decoration with while infill. Below rim, framed horizontal band of sets of oppositely angled lines. On body, as preserved, a seven-line concentric circle motif with a central dot beside a double-framed vertical ladder band flanked by two sets of two vertical lines. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body, base -- Joins: 2 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 90 -- Height - full: 35 -- Height to rim: 35 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Wall - base: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thick -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: N3/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium