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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P101

White Painted III

bowl

Almost complete small, shallow hemispherical bowl with rounded base. Slightly incurved rim. Uptilted horizontal handle from just below rim. Decorated in slightly lustrous (on exterior only) orange-red paint. On interior, horizontal band just below rim; on body two sets of two parallel vertical lines from rim, meeting but not crossing on base. On exterior, below rim, three-line horizontal zigzag above a horizontal line; on lower body, one set of three and one set of four parallel vertical lines from rim, meeting but not crossing on base. In each of the two interstices below the handle, two short parallel wavy lines. Parallel horizontal bands on upper and lower surface of handle. Mended from six sherds. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 6 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: pointed -- Base type: round -- Handle type: horizontal -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: <100 -- Rim diameter - specific: 82 -- Height to rim: 35 -- Height - maximum diameter: 30 -- Diameter - body: 85 -- Wall below rim: 1 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Wall - base: 3 -- Handle section 1: 7 -- Handle section 2: 8 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/3 -- Colour interior: 10YR8/4 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR4/4 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium