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Kafkalla

Tomb 787, P101

White Slip I

bowl

Non-joining rim, handle and body fragment from a small to medium-sized bowl. Deep hemispherical body. Incurved rounded rim. Horizontal wishbone handle below rim (mostly missing). Decorated in matt dark brown and red-brown paint (true bichrome). Below rim, red-brown horizontal wavy line (continuous above handle), two horizontal dark brown lines, a horizontal red-brown wavy line and two dark brown horizontal lines, the latter forming a band which is not continuous in the handle area. On body, alternating vertical framed crosshatched bands (the frame in dark brown and crosshatching in red-brown) and groups of three vertical lines in dark brown. Band around existing handle/body join. Band on side of handle. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 8 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: wishbone -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Handle section 1: 9 -- Handle section 2: 10 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5Y8/1 -- Colour interior: 2.5Y8/1 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR5/6, 5YR4/2, 5YR4/4, 5YR3/1 -- Colour - fabric: 2.5YR4/8 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium