
Early Bronze Age II
Red Polished Bowl
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
Date
2300 - 2100 BC
Accession No.
2013,5023.1
Collection
British Museum
Provenance