Red Polished Tulip Bowl

Pottery bowl ('tulip bowl') in Red Polished I-II (Black Top) ware; hand-made; deep bulbous body tapering inwards towards the stump base (indented); plain rim, slightly incurving. Pair of opposing project, concave behind; one is pierced like a lug, the other is plain and may have acted as a spout. Made of fairly coarse buff clay covered with a lustrous slip: fires black above and red below; decorated with incised motifs: two friezes of horizontal zig-zags composed of parallel lines separated by a horizontal file of lozenzes between pairs of lines. The surface/slip is very worn and accreted in places, and parts of the surface seem to have been treated with an applied substance.

Dimensions: Diameter: 12.30 centimetres

Object Type: vessel

Ware: Red Polished Ware

Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast); Stewart Type (XIII B e2 4 b1)

Techniques: incised; handmade; slipped

Early Bronze Age II

1980,1126.2