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Cemetery: 
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item: 
Tomb 789, P202
Ware: 
Red Polished Black Top
Shape: 
bowl
Notes: 
Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurving, almost pointed rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, five parallel horizontal lines. On upper body two opposed horizontally hatched triangles arranged in a vertical band, beside five or more parallel vertical lines overlain by a vertical two-line zig-zag. At base of sherd one or more parallel horizontal lines. Drawn.
Description: 
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: thick -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5N/, 7.5YR6/6, 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5N/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR6/3 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: red, white -- Hardness: very soft -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high