
Red Polished 'Tulip' Bowl
Description: | 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 |
Period: | Early Bronze Age II |
Date: | 2300 - 2100 BC |
Collection: | British Museum |
Provenance: | Vounous |
Accession Number: | 1939,0217.11 |