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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P90

White Painted III

bowl

Mended rim, body, base and handle fragment from a small bowl. Hemispherical body, rounded base, horizontal uptilted handle from rim (largely broken away). Decorated in orange-brown paint. Wavy line on surface and underside of handle. Solid paint on rim. On interior, below rim two parallel horizontal wavy lines; on body one set of four and one set of five parallel vertical lines, from rim to circle at centre of base; at mid-body in each quadrant a horizontal wavy line (not crossing vertical lines). On exterior, horizontal wavy line below rim above two parallel horizontal lines; on body one set of two parallel vertical wavy lines and one set of five parallel vertical straight lines from rim meeting but not crossing at centre of base. In each quadrant one vertical wavy line and four parallel vertical straight lines. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 2 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: round -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 110 -- Height - maximum diameter: 45 -- Diameter - body: 120 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 4 -- Handle section 1: 9 -- Handle section 2: 9 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5YR6/6 -- Colour interior: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium