Cemetery:
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Kafkalla
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Tomb and Item:
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Tomb 789, P218
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Ware:
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Red Polished Black Top
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Shape:
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bowl
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Notes:
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Rim fragment from a small bowl. Incurved, almost pointed rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, horizontal row of plain lozenges. On upper body, two-line concentric circle motif (broadly incised) adjoining five parallel horizontal lines overlain with a two-line horizontal zig-zag. Below, a hatched lozenge, as preserved. Drawn.
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Description:
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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: 2 -- Wall - body: 4 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5N/, 5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5N/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: black, red -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium
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