Red Polished Bowl

Red Polished Bowl

Description:

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

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2075 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Vounous

Accession Number:

1939,0217.4