Red Polished Bowl

Red Polished Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Red Polished ware; hand-made; deep ovoid-hemispherical body on a rounded base; plain incurving rim; single horizontal lug handle just below the rim with single perforation. Made of orange-buff clay with a burnished surface, fired irregularly red, orange or black (a deep bank adjacent to the handle is not continous around the body). Rim chipped in places and surface abraded.


Dimensions: Diameter: 10.90 centimetres; Height: 7.60 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP I-II)


Techniques: handmade; burnished

Period:

Early Bronze Age II

Date:

2300 - 2100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Accession Number:

2013,5023.1