Red Polished Box

Red Polished Box

Description:

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

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1876,0909.24