Red Polished Bowl - image 1

Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished Bowl

Pottery bowl in Red Polished black-top ware; hand-made; shallow hemispherical body, inverted at the rim, on a rounded base; single horn-lug handle; buff clay covered with a lustrous slip, fired red on the lower exterior and brown-black on top and interior. Dimensions: Diameter: 12.60 centimetres; Height: 10.30 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast); Stewart Type (XIII D a) Techniques: handmade; slipped; polished

Date

2300 - 2075 BC

Accession No.

1939,0217.4

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous