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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P124

White Slip II Late

bowl

Rim and body fragment from a medium-sized bowl. Hemispherical body, incurved rounded rim. Wall thickens to handle join (missing). Thick white slip. Decorated in dark brown paint, fired reddish-brown where more thinly applied. Six parallel horizontal lines below rim, irregularly drawn and not continuous. On upper body four parallel shorter lines partly visible at edge of sherd; two vertical angled parallel lines partly visible at lower left of sherd. Probably late WS II. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 160 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/3 -- Colour interior: 10YR7/3 -- Colour - paint: 5YR3/2 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: light -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, red -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: poor