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Red Polished Tulip Bowl, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Polished Black-Topped
Red Polished Tulip Bowl, Early Bronze Age II Cypriot, Red Polished Black-Topped, c. 2300–2100 BC. British Museum, 1980,1126.2.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age II

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

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished Black-Topped
Shape
BowlTulip bowl
Decoration
Incised
Motifs
Zigzags and chevrons, Triangles and lozenges
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeEarly Cypriot (Early Bronze Age)
Date
2300 - 2100 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Bellapais-Vounous

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Vounous

Identifiers

Accession no.
1980,1126.2, British Museum · Museum record

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