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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P233

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Mended rim, handle and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved, rounded rim. Small pierced lug handle at rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, horizontal row of hatched lozenges with three parallel horizontal lines above and three below. On body, four-line concentric circle motifs, linked horizontally by one or two double- or single-framed crosshatched bands. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 6 -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 150 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: medium -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/, 5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/3 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium