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Kafkalla

Tomb 772, P11

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Rim, handle and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Small pierced lug handle at rim. Incised decoration with some white infill. Below rim, four-line horizontal zig-zag bordered above and below by three horizontal lines. Below, a thinly incised horizontal wavy line. Above (and to left of) lug, immediately below rim, two parallel short angled lines. 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: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- 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: 7.5YR6/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium