COLLECTION NAME:
DeneiaArchive
Record
Cemetery:
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item:
Tomb 763, P39
Ware:
Red Polished Black Top
Shape:
bowl
Notes:
Joining and non-adjoining rim and body fragments from a small bowl. Deep hemispherical body. Incurved rounded rim. Small pierced lug at rim. Incised decoration with white infill. Below rim, horizontal framed crosshatched band between double horizontal lines; to one side of handle, two two-line concentric circle motifs with a short vertical zig-zag in between. On body, horizontal framed crosshatched band between double horizontal lines, linking three-line concentric circle motifs. At base of sherd two or more parallel horizontal lines. Drawn.
Description:
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 7 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 180 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/, 2.5R4/8 -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium
