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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P215

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Rim, handle and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved, rounded rim. Small lug handle from the rim, not fully pierced. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, five parallel horizontal lines overlain by a one-line horizontal zig-zag. On upper body, three-line concentric circle motif (with a short horizontal line at the centre) adjoining a horizontal crosshatched band. Part of a narrow horizontal row of plain logenzes (?) in between. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: indented lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5N/, 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5N/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR6/4 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: red, white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium