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Early Bronze Age III

Red Polished Cooking Pot

Pottery storage jar ('cooking pot') of Red Polished III coarse ware; handmade; globular body with rounded base and wide flaring neck with slightly everted rim; two round vertical handles from rim to shoulder, one rising slightly above the rim; yellow-buff clay with darker slip; repaired. Dimensions: Height: 14.50 centimetres Object Type: jar; cooking-pot Ware: Red Polished Ware (RP III (coarse ware)) Series: Stewart Type (VIII B g2, variety a) Techniques: handmade

Date

2100 - 1750 BC

Accession No.

1884,1210.65

Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Phoenikiais (?)
  • Alambra (?)