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Cemetery: 
Kafkalla
Tomb and Item: 
Tomb 789, P245
Ware: 
Red Polished Black Top
Shape: 
bowl
Notes: 
Almost complete small thick-walled bowl. Incurved, rounded rim. Round base. Fine incised decoration. Over whole vessel, alternating broadly incised single horizontal lines and horizontal rows of hatched lozenges (four rows of lozenges in total and five lines, ending in a circle on base). Drawn.
Description: 
General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: >2/3 -- Parts: rim, body, base -- Joins: 22 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Base type: round -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 140 -- Height - full: 75 -- Height to rim: 75 -- Height - maximum diameter: 69 -- Diameter - body: 144 -- Wall below rim: 5 -- Wall - body: 7 -- Wall - base: 6 -- Exterior slip: worn -- Interior slip: worn -- Exterior lustre: matt -- Interior lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: distinct -- Colour - exterior: N2.5/, 2.5YR5/6 -- Colour interior: N2.5/ -- Colour - fabric: 10YR7/3 -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: none -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium