Red Polished Incised Bowl

Red Polished Incised Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Red Polished I-II ware; hand-made; hemispherical body with a pointed base, and slightly incurving rim; single pierced lug at the rim; made of buff clay covered with a highly polished slip, fired red-orange throughout the body; decorated with incised motifs filled with lime: zig-zags framed by horixontal lines at the rim, and geometrical designs floating in the field below; rim chipped in places and surface worn.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12 centimetres; Height: 5.50 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart Class XIII Type F3a)


Techniques: pierced; incised; handmade; slipped

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Ayia Paraskevi

Accession Number:

1888,0927.17