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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P148

White Painted composite

bowl

Mended base and lower body fragment from a deep bowl. Low ring base (or flat raised disk base, concave underneath). Slipped/painted across whole of interior. Finely decorated on exterior with slightly lustrous orange-brown paint, not well preserved. Solid paint on base rim (or possibly across whole of base). On lower body, three parallel vertical lines, with parallel angled lines to one or both sides, part of unidentifiable motif. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: base -- Joins: 5 -- Base type: ring -- Diameter - base: 40 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Wall - base: 5 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Interior lustre: medium -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10YR7/4 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR4/8 -- Colour - fabric: 5YR6/6 -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: painted -- Decoration quality: medium