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Kafkalla

Tomb 772, P44

Black Polished

bowl

Mended rim, body and base fragment from a small bowl. Almost complete. Deep hemispherical body. Round base. Incurved rounded rim. Fine incised decoration with traces of white infill. Below rim, six parallel horizontal lines. On body, alternating isolated framed horizontally hatched diamonds and a composite motif of eight parallel vertical lines flanked to each side by two horizontally hatched framed triangles arranged vertically (alternatively, a double framed hatched diamond motif split by eight vertical lines). Six parallel horizontal lines around edge of base. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, body, base -- Joins: 4 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 83 -- Height - full: 64 -- Height to rim: 64 -- Height - maximum diameter: 50 -- Diameter - body: 95 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 6 -- Exterior slip: thick -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/ -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: N4/ -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high