Cemetery:
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Kafkalla
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Tomb and Item:
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Tomb 789, P253
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Ware:
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Red Polished III
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Shape:
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bowl
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Notes:
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Rim and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurved rounded rim. Fine incised decoration. Below rim, four parallel horizontal lines. On body, as preserved, five parallel angled lines, possibly part of a multiple horizontal zig-zag, and a vertical row of short angled dashes. Drawn.
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Description:
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General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Wall below rim: 3 -- Wall - body: 5 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: high -- Interior lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 2.5YR4/6 -- Colour interior: 2.5YR4/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR7/3 -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: red, grey -- Hardness: soft -- Core presence: none -- Decoration technique: incised -- Decoration quality: medium
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