Red Polished Ware Bowl

Red Polished Ware Bowl

Description:

Pottery bowl in Red Polished II ware; hand-made; hemispherical body on a rounded base; incurving rim; single pierced lug placed below the rim; made of fairly coarse clay covered with a highly polished slip, fired red throughout the body; decorated with incised motifs filled with lime: horizontal parallel lines framing a zig-zag below the rim, cross-hatched arcs on the body. semicircles and zilustorus slip, buff redware bowl; pierced lug; incised decoration of hatched bands and zig-zags; rim chipped and surface worn in places.


Dimensions: Diameter: 12.40 centimetres; Height: 6.20 centimetres


Object Type: bowl


Ware: Red Polished Ware


Series: Red Polished I-II (north coast) (Stewart Type XIII F3)


Techniques: pierced; incised; handmade; slipped

Period:

Early Bronze Age III

Date:

2100 - 1900 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Ayia Paraskevi

Accession Number:

1888,0927.16