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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P40

Black Polished

bowl

Mended rim, handle, body and base fragment from a small bowl. Hemispherical body, tripod base. Incurved rounded rim. Pierced lug from the rim. Well executed incised decoration with some white in-fill. From the rim, two horizontal lines; horizontal row of equidistant small circles joined by hatched horizontal band with some crosshatching; three parallel horizontal lines with equidistant sets of two alternately angled short parallel angled lines. On body a horizontal eight-row hatched chequerboard. On edge of base six parallel horizontal lines, inter-cut between the feet by a vertical row of plain lozenges. On each foot two concentric lines. Two-line concentric circle on base within the three feet. Height of feet 7.5. Diameter at top 7.5. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, base, body -- Joins: 22 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: tripod -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 150 -- Height - full: 110 -- Height to rim: 110 -- Height - body: 92 -- Height - maximum diameter: 90 -- Diameter - body: 160 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N3/ -- Colour interior: N3/ -- 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