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Red Polished Bowl, Early Bronze Age I Cypriot, Red Polished I
Red Polished Bowl, Early Bronze Age I Cypriot, Red Polished I, c. 2300–2150 BC. British Museum, 1939,0217.15.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished I
Shape
BowlTulip bowl
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)
Date
2300 - 2150 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Bellapais-Vounous

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Accession No.

1939,0217.15

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous

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