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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P239

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Three rim, handle and body fragments from a small bowl. Incurved, rounded rim. Small pierced lug set at or just below rim. Incised decoration, thin and not well executed. Below rim, eight parallel horizontal lines. On body, vertical framed panels comprised of two vertical rows of hatched lozenges. To each side a large three-line concentric circle motif (more boradly incised than other lines) and isolated hatched lozenges. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 6 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: below rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 4 -- Wall - body: 6 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: medium -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5N/, 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5N/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/4 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: medium-soft -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium