Red Polished Bowl - image 1

Early Bronze Age I

Red Polished Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red Polished I ware; hand-made; tulip-shaped body with a flat nipple base and (probably) four plaque-like vertical concave lugs from the rim; slipped and polsihed; red from the base, shading to grey-black at rim and on interior; white-filled incised decoration; badly damaged and restored. Dimensions: Diameter: 14.40 centimetres; Height: 11.90 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type XIII B e2 5) Techniques: handmade; incised; polished; slipped

Date

2300 - 2150 BC

Accession No.

1939,0217.15

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous