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Kafkalla

Tomb 789, P244

Red Polished Black Top

bowl

Rim and body fragments from a small bowl. Incurved, rounded rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, horizontal row of plain lozenges with two parallel horizontal lines above and two below and angled hatching filling the upper and lower interstices. Over body, two horizontal rows of downward-pointing horizontally hatched triangles with two parallel horizontal lines between them (or two rows of plain upward-pointing triangles). In most of the hatched areas, at the centre, a horizontal row of crosshatching or, in one case as preserved, a horizontal zig-zag line. Four or more parallel horizontal lines around edge of base overlain with a deep one-line horizontal zig-zag. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, body -- Joins: 5 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 160 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 7 -- Exterior slip: medium -- Interior slip: medium -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: high -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5N/, 10R4/8 -- Colour interior: 2./5N -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/6 -- Colour - core: dark -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: medium -- Inclusions - size: small -- Inclusions - colour: white -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: thin -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: high