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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P77

White Painted IV

large closed

Neck/rim fragment from a large closed vessel. Medium-wide neck tapering to sharply everted mouth rim, concave on top. Painted in black/brown paint, fired red-orange on one half of sherd. On rim horizontal wavy line between thin straight lines. Below rim on interior horizontal wavy line. Below rim on exterior thin horizontal wavy line above three parallel horizontal lines. On neck five-row solid chequerboard beside sideways crosshatched triangle framed by three vertical lines, as preserved. Below, four or more parallel horizontal lines. Drawn.

General shape: large closed -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, neck -- Joins: 1 -- Mouth type: round -- Mouth angle: horizontal -- Rim course: everted -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Neck type: upward taper -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 90 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10 YR 7/4 -- Colour - paint: 2.5 YR 4/4, 2.5YR 4/0 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5 YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: high