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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P127

White Painted composite

bowl

Mended, almost complete bowl (or cup). Conical body with flattened, slightly convex base. Small vertical loop handle from the rim, circular/ovoid in section, flat at the rear. Medium lustrous cream slip. Finely decorated in lustrous red-orange paint on exterior and below rim on interior. Remainder of interior covered with red-brown slip/paint. Horizontal zig-zag below rim on interior. Solid paint on surface of handle. On exterior four horizontal rows of hatched inverted triangles, in panels formed by three groups of four vertical lines. Double crossing lines on base, with two opposing quarters filled with angled hatching. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 18 -- Rim course: straight -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: flat -- Handle type: small vert loop -- Handle section: oval -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 100 -- Height - full: 58 -- Height to rim: 55 -- Height - maximum diameter: 55 -- Diameter - base: 45 -- Wall below rim: 2 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Wall - base: 7 -- Handle section 1: 7 -- Handle section 2: 5 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: slight -- Paint lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/4 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR4/6 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: red, white, black -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: high