
Early Bronze Age II
Red Polished Tulip Bowl
Pottery 'tulip' bowl in Red Polished black-top ware; hand-made; deep ovoid body with a pointed base; opposing convex lugs at the rim, one pierced horizontally; made of fine buff clay with lustrous slip, fired red on the exterior and black on the top and interior; decorated with white lime-filled incisions. Dimensions: Diameter: 11.30 centimetres; Height: 10.20 centimetres Object Type: bowl Ware: Red Polished Ware Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast); Stewart Type (XIII B, type c2/3, var. b) Techniques: slipped; handmade; polished; pierced
Date
2300 - 2100 BC
Accession No.
1939,0217.6
Collection
British Museum
Provenance
- Vounous