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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P139

White Slip II

bowl

Mended, almost complete medium-sized bowl. Deep hemispherical body, rounded base. Incurved rounded rim. Horizontal wishbone handle set well below rim. Decorated in matt dark brown paint. Multiple parallel angled lines on surface of handle. Solid paint on sides of handle. On exterior, on either side of upper body, horizontal hooked line with horizontal crosshatched band above and below. On mid and lower body, on either side, alternating vertical crosshatched and narrower vertical ladder bands, not meeting on base. On front and rear of body, between vertical crosshatched bands, a narrow ladder band crossed by a horizontal line. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body, base -- Joins: 4 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: wishbone -- Handle section: rectangle -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 175 -- Height - full: 108 -- Height to rim: 108 -- Height - maximum diameter: 100 -- Diameter - body: 178 -- Wall below rim: 2 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Wall - base: 3 -- Handle section 1: 8 -- Handle section 2: 10 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: matt -- Paint lustre: matt -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR8/1 -- Colour interior: 10YR8/1 -- Colour - paint: 5YR3/2 -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/1 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, red -- Hardness: hard -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium