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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P128

White Painted IV

bowl

Mended, almost complete bowl. Hemispherical body, incurved rounded rim. Round base. Handle and area of rim missing. Decorated in matt orange-red paint. Narrow band on rim. On interior horizontal wavy line below rim. Four equidistant sets of four parallel vertical lines, alternating with four vertical wavy lines, meeting at a small circle at centre of base. On exterior horizontal band of upright hatched triangles with a triple border on one side below rim. Horizontal line below. On lower body and base four sets of three vertical lines alternating with single vertical wavy lines, meeting at a small circle at centre of base. Handle and area of rim missing. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, base, body -- Joins: 7 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: constant -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 113 -- Height to rim: 50 -- Height - maximum diameter: 45 -- Diameter - body: 116 -- Wall below rim: 2 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Wall - base: 3 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Interior lustre: slight -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour interior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - paint: 5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: light -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: high