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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P147

White Painted composite

bowl

Several non-joining mended fragments (rim, body and handle) from a small bowl. Hemispherical body, with incurving rounded rim. Small pierced pointed lug set just below rim. Slipped or painted over whole of interior. Decorated on exterior with medium lustrous orange-brown paint. Solid paint on rim. Below rim two-line horizontal zig-zag above a horizontal line. On body, as preserved, sets of parallel angled lines (part of unidentifiable motif). Solid paint on surface of handle. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 2 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 110 -- Wall below rim: 2 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: slight -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR6/6 -- Colour - paint: 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/4 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: black, red -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium