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Red Polished Box, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot pyxis, Red Polished III
Red Polished Box, Early Bronze Age III Cypriot, Red Polished III, c. 2100–1900 BC. British Museum, 1876,0909.24.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Box

Pottery Red Polished ware box (pyxis); hand-made; depressed oval body on a flattened base; oval mouth with small holes on each side midway along; the oval lid, with a single rectangular lug handle, has similar perforations in corresponding posiitions; made of light buff clay covered with a lustrous slip fired orange-red throughout; decorated with incised motifs: concentric rows of semi-circles joined by zig-zags composed of parallel lines on the base and body; on the lid, bands of parallel lines radiating from the lug handle; surface and slip worn in places; minor restoration on the body. Dimensions: Height: 12.70 centimetres with lid ; Length: 27.94 centimetres Object Type: pyxis Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III) Series: Stewart Type IX C c3 -?- Techniques: handmade; slipped; incised

Classification

Object type
Pottery vessel
Ware
Red Polished wareRed Polished III
Shape
JarPyxis
Decoration
Incised
Motifs
Concentric semicircles, Zigzags and chevrons
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
2100 - 1900 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1876,0909.24, British Museum · Museum record

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