Red Polished Knob-Lug Bowl

Red Polished Knob-Lug Bowl

Description:

Pottery knob-lug bowl in Red Polished I-II (mottled) ware (or related); hand-made; hemispherical body on a slightly flattened round base; plain rim; single pierced lug-handle (damaged) at the rim; made of fairly coarse clay covered with a highly polished slip, fired darkish-red. Rim chipped and the slip is worn.


Dimensions: Diameter: 10 centimetres; Height: 4.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished I-II (mottled); Stewart Type (Class XIII F2 a2)


Techniques: pierced; burnished; handmade

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Ayia Paraskevi

Accession Number:

1888,0927.15