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Red Polished Bowl, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot
Red Polished Bowl, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 2300–2100 BC. British Museum, 2013,5023.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished ware
Shape
Bowl
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)
Date
2300 - 2100 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Accession No.

2013,5023.1

Collection

British Museum

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