Object photograph·C05116·1927–1931

Pottery Black Slip Bichrome, bowl (A.7.138)

Pottery Black Slip Bichrome bowl with two loop handles, seen from above, decorated with concentric circles and radiating bands — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C05116. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A round, shallow bowl with two horizontal loop handles, photographed from above on a pale surface against a grey backdrop. The black-slipped body has a central concentric-circle motif, radiating bands, checkerboard-patterned triangular panels and a border of triangles near the rim. Old cracks run across the vessel.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Black Slip Bichrome, A.7.138.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Black Slip Bichrome. A.7.138.

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