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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, 1939,0217.11.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age II

Red Polished 'Tulip' Bowl

Pottery 'tulip' bowl in Red Polished (black-top) ware; hand-made; deep body with a pointed nipple base and two vertical concave lugs, one of which is pierced. Made of fine buff clay, evenly slipped and polished, fired black above and in interior, and red below; decorated with white lime-filled zigzags and circles on the body, with semicircles at the rim. Dimensions: Diameter: 11.35 centimetres; Height: 14 centimetres; Width: 15.20 centimetres overall width Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart type XIII B c2 3 var. c) Techniques: handmade; slipped; incised

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished Black-Topped
Shape
BowlTulip bowl
Decoration techniques
Incised, IncisedIncised and white-filled
Motifs
Zigzags and chevrons, Concentric circles
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.
1939,0217.11, British Museum · Museum record

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