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Kafkalla

Tomb 772, P3

Black Polished

bowl

Rim, handle and body fragment from a small bowl. Hemispherical body. Incurved rounded rim. Small pierced lug from the rim. Fine incised decoration. Organic filler in fabric. Below rim, horizontal triple-framed band of sets of angled lines. Below lug band of nine or more vertical parallel lines. At lower end of sherd five or more horizontal parallel lines, with area overlaid by parallel vertical lines. On body, at break, part of a framed hatched lozenge. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR2.5/0 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR5/3-4/2 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high