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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P125

White Slip IIA

bowl

Rim and body fragment from a medium-sized bowl. Hemispherical. Incurved thinning rounded rim. Thick white slip. Decorated in dark brown paint. On rim sets of short parallel vertical dashes interspersed with a single broad dash. On exterior, below rim horizontal band of crosshatched lozenges between double parallel horizontal lines. On body four (originally) sets of four parallel vertical lines from decoration below rim to base. In each quadrant, on upper body, two crosshatched lozenges. Drawn.

General shape: large 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: 180 -- Diameter - body: 170 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 5Y8/1 -- Colour interior: 5Y8/1 -- Colour - paint: 7.5YR3/1 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: light -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium