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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P238

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Base and lower body fragment from a small bowl. Tripod base. Fine incised decoration. Two broadly incised lines around each foot. At centre of base, two-line concentric circle motif (broadly incised). Five parallel horizontal lines encircling edge of base. Three sets of two parallel zig-zag lines from outer concentric circle across encircling lines to lower body, one between each foot. Lower body divided by angled vertical framed crosshatched bands, with isolated hatched lozenges and two-line concentric circle motifs (broadly incised) in between. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: body, base -- Joins: 5 -- Base type: tripod -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Wall - base: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 10R5/8, 7.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5N/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/3 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: red, white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high